please let me know if there is an official funeral for appleworks, i have to attend i was using it during the apple2 times in 1980s & clariswork on the first 2 macs & as appleworks again on a mac clone 'umax' towards the end of the 90s until 2004, appleworks must be 31 years old by now..... James
SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 07/04/2011, at 10:06 AM, Geoff and Kaye wrote: > > Yes, Appleworks will be sorely missed. We mostly use the spreadsheet and > drawing and painting functions. I doubt if it came from outside Apple; I > think it probably arose when someone at Apple realised that they could > combine the original MacPaint and MacDraw with a word processor and the other > functions into one program. The problem was that even in doing that, they > discarded very useful features - for example MacDraw had layers, which could > be "paint" or "draw" layers with a range of options to collapse them to > produce the final view - a very powerful approach which I have not come > across in any current software. > > The other interesting thing about ClarisWorks was that they made a PC version > - I used to use it at work where I did not have access to a Mac. I do not > think it made a big impression in the PC world, however; even if the typical > PC user could see its advantages, they often had a pathological inhibition > about buying anything created by Apple. > >> >> >> On 06/04/2011, at 4:09 PM, David Noel wrote: >> >>> -- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be, >>> was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs >>> ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I have a >>> feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside >>> company, but later put a huge amount into later versions. >> > > > Geoff > ---------------------- > Geoff and Kaye > k...@kgweb.org.au > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
