I got my first Mac (an SE) when I went back to being a pastor of a church in 1987 and we bought MS Works, which I used at first. I bought AppleWorks (for the Apple IIe) when it first came out and used it through 1987, the last year or so along with MultiScribe, which I used for making up pages. In 1983, I was completely captivated by a new Apple //e which I bought along with AppleWriter, a major word processor for the time. I thought you might enjoy reading a little history of a ClarisWorks user. I enjoyed reading your history of ClarisWorks. Needed to fix a misbehaving router, ClarisWorks' serial communications ![]() Get the most out of his computer (he is a retired journalist who still hasĪn IBM Selectric typewriter lurking in the attic) have been greatlyĪdvanced, I believe, by the elegance of ClarisWorks. My efforts to help my septuagenarian father What an incredibly useful, fast, stable and intuitive program (I'm thinking I later bought ClarisWorks 4, and continue to use AppleWorks 6 on Mac Pre-installed on my incredibly expensive PowerBook 190cs running Mac OSħ.5.2. My introduction to ClarisWorks was using ClarisWorks 3 which came I have just finished reading your article "A Brief History of ClarisWorks"Īnd want to thank you for writing this interesting piece, and to express my Subject: Thank you from a reader of your ClarisWorks history How cool can than be! Best to youĪlways and thanks so much for your vision and efforts over the years. Your program's most enthusiastic supporters.Īnd now you are at MIT in the AI Lab. Was such he always learned something new. When I asked howĬould he sit through the same class so many times, he said the program Next several years to teach your program to the kids he supported in that More worried about the 70 kids!' I returned many, many times over the Intimidated by his being there, I had to truthfully answer 'No, I was Since 1980, I was thrilled to have him sitting in the back of theĬlassroom as I taught. '92, I was hired by him to teach ClarisWorks to 70 1st, 2nd & 3rd gradersĪt School. To meet and get to know Steve Wozniak, another ClarisWorks enthusiast. Though very 'small potatoes' on the screen of what you have accomplished, and the one I grab to quickly solve a variety You want a spreadsheet inside your word processingĭocument - OK - here it is! To this day, it is my most used application When I first encountered the program, it was the most amazing ![]() Gosh, what a great read! I have been a most enthusiastic, die-hard user Subject: Re: A Brief History of ClarisWorks Then, and couldn't imagine being without today.Īt 10, I had wide eyes for the future, and an unmeasurable optimismįor the future of personal technology. I wanted to thank you for providing the background of what happened atĬlaris and Spartacus and for making possible a lifestyle I could not imagine Upon the cornerstones you and Scott laid. I've met my partner of 3 years through means facilitated by software built I'm a 12 year veteran of the Internet- and live a truly connected life viaĬellular, WiFi, handlelds and multiple servers running on the racks in my closet. Software production (as my father was also involved in, when I was young). Now, I'm 21-Īnd while my career objectives have shifted away from the world of IT and I'm looking to purchase a new portable in the next few months. After ten years, it didn't take much to remember the names/termsĪfter five years away from Apple use, I'm slowly being drawn back in. Spent much time learning Applescript, as a started, and poking around in I also recall my growing interest in how these applications worked, and Purchased 60 LCIIs, edging out Commodore 64/128s in the "new" labs. Ease of use prevailed, and eventually my school had Staff of my elementary school: if I, then a sixth grader, could figure it out, ![]() ![]() I recall that year, demonstrating CW (and several otherįeatures of the Macintosh and the high-storage of CD-ROMs) to the assembled By early 1992, we had boughtĬlarisWorks 1.0, and I was dialing in, via the communications module, to myįathers office and exploring the textual world of the 'net (and, to a lesserĮxtent, local BBSes. (my father having purchased an Apple II days before I was born)Īnd, as a boy of 10 started out online in 1990. I found much interest (and nostalgia) in reading your brief history of > that the ClarisWorks file creator ID is BOBO. > Those who are excessively nosy or observant might have noticed Subject: Re: A brief history of ClarisWorks. ClarisWorks User Stories ClarisWorks User Stories
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