Developed by: Peter Norton Computing (John Socha)
Launched: 1982
Innovation: The ability to recover deleted files using the unerase utility made it an essential program on any DOS computer.

Norton Utilities was a collection of small programs that allowed you to do things that the DOS operating system commands didn't allow.
It arose from Peter Norton's need to recover a mistakenly deleted file.
He later added other small utility programs, which he compiled into a package he called Norton Utilities.