Magic Desk

Magic Desk I: Type and File
	Main screen of Magic Desk I
Other names	Magic Desk
Original author(s)	John Feagans; Andy Finkel; Michael Tomczyk; Jeff Bruette;
Developer(s)	Commodore Business Machines
Initial release	November 1983
Platform	Commodore 64
Type	Word processor; File manager;
License	Proprietary software

Magic Desk was a planned series of productivity software by Commodore Business Machines for the Commodore 64. Only the first entry, Type and File, was ever released. It was introduced at the summer edition of the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show in June, slated for an August 31 release. Commodore developed the Magic Desk suite both in response to a perceived lack of productivity software for the Commodore 64 and to the graphical user interface of the Apple Lisa.

Despite its popularity, which brought most customers their first experience with a graphical user interface, Type and File was panned by contemporary computer journalists for its incompleteness and cumbersome interface. Commodore scrapped succeeding entries, in favor of cultivating the built-in productivity software for Commodore's succeeding home computer, the Plus/4.

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