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Quick View is a variety of computer programs that quickly display files. Historically, it has been described as Quikview without the “C”.

Quick View 1.0 on Atari ST (1989)

The 1989 journal of The Milwaukee Area Atari Users Group introduced a text display program called Quikview. According to Atarimania, The Quick View for Atari released in 1989 was a text viewer. It is probably the same one.

The following is a reproduction of the description screen.

Quick View 1.0
When viewing a file, the cursor keys
can be used to scroll through the
file. Alphanumeric keys are unesed.

F1 - pageb up F3 - top of file
F2 - page down F4 - end of file

Use the ESC key to exit View mode.
Usethe Quick Print accessory to
generate text-only screen dumps.

Dr. Bob's .IMG Quick View on Atari ST (1989)

It is described as “View (mono only) IMG files, very fast.”

QuikView on Apple2000 (1991)

TimeOut-Central is a series of 3.5-inch disks published by Resource-Central. This appears to be a product for TimeOut that runs on AppleWorks. One of these apps for TimeOut is QuikView. This opens an AppleWorks word processor file. This is also a text viewer, as the sample includes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

  • Peter Stark. "Apple2000", Vol.6 No.5, October 1991, pp.23-24. ()

Quick View on Windows (1993?)

QuikView for Windows by QuikTech AB (1994)

This is a data analysis tool. In 1993, Swedish entrepreneurs founded a software company called Quik-Tech and developed QuikView. QuikView for Windows 1.0 was released in 1994. In 1996, the company name was changed to Qlik-Tech and the software was renamed "QlikView". This was because many software products used the same prefix, making it impossible to register the trademark.

In the book

Quick View

Even with a very simple search, the oldest reference I could find was in a book from 1657.

We will now crosse the Greek Seas to Europe, and take a quick view of most of those Cities, which are of the first magnitude

Simply connected QuickView was also used in the 19th century.

QuikView

Quikview without the letter “C” appears in a 1985 book by John W. Seybold, the father of computer typesetting. It appears to be an expansion board for Motorola 68000 manufactured by Bedford Computer.

Bedford Computer Quikview upgrade (of Motorola 68000 power painter board-1982).

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