Show notes
This episode is all about "the best-loved application for the Mac", ClarisWorks. We remember a simpler age of word processing, not understanding how the "New document" command or pixels worked, and some difficult transitions in our productivity workflows.
Links for this episode:
Easter eggs followup
Claris
- MacDraw, MacPaint, MacWrite
- Claris Em@ailer
- Claris Home Page
- HyperCard (versions 2.0–2.2)
- HyperCard Player v2.1 ("magic" trick)
- FileMaker Inc.
- FileMaker Pro 14
- Bento (discontinued in 2013)
- namesake of the dogcow
- BOBO
AppleWorks and ClarisWorks
- AppleWorks for Apple II
- A Brief History of ClarisWorks
- ClarisWorks 3 download
- ClarisWorks 4 download
- draw documents
- PICT format
- Avara
- Avara level design guide [.sit.hqx file]
- paint documents
- ClarisWorks for Kids [WayBack]
- OpenDoc
- the competition: Microsoft Works
iWork
- introduction of Keynote: 2003
- Pages: 2005
- Numbers: 2007
our long national nightmare is over. pic.twitter.com/WOCgDvj3ZF
— Ed Cormany (@ecormany) October 16, 2015