How to open your ClarisWorks files for a stroll down memory lane<article>
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It’s easy to assume that we have it better now than we ever had it in the past. In raw numerical terms, today’s computers are many thousands of times faster than the computers I grew up using in the ’80s and ’90s, and that has enabled the development of software that is wildly more capable but in many cases much more user-friendly than the apps I used back then. Yet say the word ClarisWorks—the name given to the precursor to iWork as Apple’s office package—to a Mac user of my vintage and they’ll pause for a moment, go a bit misty-eyed, and proceed to tell you with a slightly unsettling zeal how awesome and ahead-of-its-time it was.</p><figure class="medium right">
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And it really was. Before ClarisWorks, so-called integrated product suites were nothing of the kind. That is, while you might have gotten a word processor, spreadsheet app and drawing app bundled in one box (installed, of course, from a stack of floppy disks), they were essentially separate apps. While they might appear to be part of a suite on the surface—sharing a UI design, splash screen, even some common features—they were technically very distinct pieces of software.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2848770/how-to-open-your-clarisworks-documents-for-a-stroll-down-memory-lane.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to open your ClarisWorks files for a stroll down memory lane
