e25 – The Works

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
Bruce the Wonder Yak
Flickr secret about box
Swarm badge vault
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
Have a Day
ClarisWorks for Kids [WayBack]
OpenDoc
the competition: Microsoft Works