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+# Synergy Vintage 🍷
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+For vintage computer enthusiasts, Synergy Vintage aims to keep the origins of 
+Synergy alive. You can use Synergy Vintage on operatings systems
+available from 2001 to 2005; Windows (95, 98, ME, or 2000), Mac OS X 
+(Jaguar to Tiger), and Linux (e.g. Red Hat 7).
+
+## History
+
+Work started on Synergy in 2001 by Chris Schoenenman, inspired by an earlier 
+version called CosmoSynergy. Synergy's predecessor was an internal
+tool at Cosmo Software (an SGI subsidiary) created out of frustration with 
+KVM switches.
+
+> The first incarnation of Synergy was CosmoSynergy, created by Richard Lee 
+and Adam Feder then at Cosmo Software, Inc., a subsidiary of 
+> SGI (nee Silicon Graphics, Inc.), at the end of 1996. They wrote it, and 
+> Chris Schoeneman contributed, to solve a problem: most of the engineers in 
+> Cosmo Software had both an Irix and a Windows box on their desks and 
+> switchboxes were expensive and annoying. CosmoSynergy > was a great success 
+> but Cosmo Software declined to productize it and the company was later 
+> closed.
+> Synergy is a from-scratch reimplementation of CosmoSynergy. It provides most
+> of the features of the original and adds a few improvements.
+
+Though, versions as early as 
+[v0.9.8](https://web.archive.org/web/20021102070634/http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59275)
+were published in November 2002, those binaries and source archives are sadly 
+long gone. The earliest version we have on record is v1.0.14 from the 24th of 
+August, 2003.
+
+## Last Vintage
+
+The transition from Synergy Vintage to Synergy Classic is when the Qt GUI was 
+introduced. The last recorded version of the Qt GUI is 
+[1.3.5](https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/releases/tag/1.3.5). 
+Tast recorded version of Synergy without Qt is 1.3.1, and this is what 
+Synergy Vintage is based on.