AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly

Several readers noted that Apple has quietly discontinued AppleWorks, in the week that the company's spreadsheet solution, Numbers, debuted in its iWork suite. The AppleWorks website now directs users to the iWork section of the Apple site. AppleWorks was introduced — before the Macintosh — in 1984 and began its long twilight as abandonware in 1999.

Quietly? Never!

[idontgno]

Moof!

Thud.

And as they lowered the casket into the ground...

[bobdotorg]

... there was a 21 MOOF!!! salute.

Re:Quietly? Never!

[tulmad]

I believe you are making reference to Clarus, which is really totally different from Claris.

pity the foo

[Gary W. Longsine]

No, all "works" packages sucked. All of them. This one may have sucked a little less, but it still sucked. You know, deep in your heart of hearts, that it sucked, and you hated it. It might take many years of therapy, but, one day, you'll be able to admit this to yourself. The sky will look more blue and somehow more cheerful on that day. You might look for a group of recovering Lotus Notes addicts for advice and support through this, uh, difficult time. Meanwhile, the rest of us are overjoyed.

Re:iWork and no ODF support

[Goaway]

No, no, lots of people use them to pirate copyrighted material! I really don't understand why Apple won't cater to this market!

Re:Finally.

[loganrapp]

Whenever Steve was in one of his "moods," programmers would be all, "I'm working on AppleWorks!" and when Steve continued down the hall they expose'd out to get back to composing porn music on GarageBand.

Re:Quietly? Never!

[kat_skan]

This is the way the database ends
This is the way the spreadsheet ends
This is the way the word processor ends
Not with a bang, but with a moof.

Re:hypercard

[ncc74656]

...and PR#1 to print. It would've been handy to have had my IIe a couple or three years earlier than I did, as I could've handed the output of this in to the teacher:

10 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#1"
20 FOR I=1 TO 200
30 PRINT "I WILL NOT THROW PAPER AIRPLANES IN CLASS."
40 NEXT I
50 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#0"

120 cps from an Imagewriter is a hell of a lot faster than I could (or can) write. :-)

Re:memories

[Kymermosst]

Before I ran out of room, I had started archiving my Apple II disks with ShrinkIT... I'd archive them onto my SCSI drive and then copy them via AppleTalk to a Linux box via a FastPath 5. I tried archiving directly to the netatalk share, but that'd cause a crash.

I need to get back to that before I lose all my disks, I have some good stuff.

Re:memories

[Anonymous Coward]

...got me through high school and college (80-mid 90's)...

Senator Blutarsky, is that you?

Re:memories

[Anonymous Coward]

I might have read your post, but something made me thirsty.

Re:6502 assembler in javascript

[skurk]

I've heard the author of the site is a handsome, athletic, sex machine.