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ClarisWorks was an amazingly easy way to ween tech illiterate people into a tech workspace.

I’ve seen a required tech course for education majors take people who literally did not know how to use a mouse from zero ability to being able to develop a variety of quite good multimedia projects using ClarisWorks.

It was like witnessing a miracle.

Thank you, Bob!

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As a TPM, I actually use ClarisWorks 4.0 (in SheepShaver) in drawing mode when running retros on one of my teams (iOS). Originally did it as a joke a couple of months ago but ended up sticking with it since it is lightning fast and works just as well as any modern tool for that purpose.

I keep hoping that someone creates something akin to WINE for Classic Mac apps, or at least something analogous to the Classic mode that shipped with OS X from versions 10.0 through 10.5. Sheepshaver and qemu-ppc are nice but a WINE-like or Classic-like would really push things to the next level for making frequent use of old Mac apps practical.

It does exist. Unfortunately it's not open source.

https://mace.software/

As a kid born in the early 80s that grew up on Macintosh, I used Claris a lot at home and at school. One of my earliest "ah-ha!" moments was when my dad taught me about copy-paste in a word processor. That you could "copy" some text and just "paste" it anywhere without having to re-type it was an amazing capability.

ClarisWorks, Aldus SuperPaint, Rapmaster[0], Zippy[1], and so many more, were fixtures of my geeky youth.

[0] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2000-rapmaster

[1] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/13387-zippy

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