A Brief History of ClarisWorks

An anonymous user writes, "Bob Hearn, one of the original authors of ClarisWorks, has just updated his own account of the project. It contains lots of interesting lessons for aspiring programmers."

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Re:The Other 'Works'

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Spinakker!

Eight-In-One Eight-In-One - © 1989 Spinnaker Software Corp.
While having all of the components of an "office" software suite -- word processor, outliner, database, spreadsheet, graphics, communication -- and more, including a memo pad, address book, world clock (different time zones), calendar, "do list," label maker, ASCII file utilities, command line, disk copy, format commands, and configuration options, this suite does not have the ability to integrate data between apps. Still, it goes far beyond WP/SS/DB/comm suites and has full mouse support. The calendar option does not accept the year 2000 ("00" gives an error) but does accept 19xx and years beyond 2000.

My Hyundai XT clone came with this thing.

Now, how about Prodigy from Sears, with those CGA graphics? Don't hog all 4800 Baud!

Re:AppleWorks for Windows

[MonTemplar]

A hybrid Mac/Windows CD of AppleWorks 6 is available from the Apple Store for Education.
Store for Education to K-12 and higher education faculty and students.

Rats! I have to go back to school in order to qualify for a copy. :-)

They should obviously call it iOfficeWorks...

[alispguru]

... to annoy everyone equally.