Ah, the memories

I was a very happy user of ClarisWorks, back in its 1.0 to 4.0 days. It was one of the finest pieces of software I’ve had the pleasure of using (another was GoLive Cyberstudio, before it was purchased and screwed up by Adobe). I still have ClarisWorks’s clumsy offspring, AppleWorks, on my hard drive, but it rarely gets used. So I read with great interest A Brief History of ClarisWorks by Bob Hearn, one of the original two developers. He talks about the trials and tribulations of writing and selling software, honestly recounts missteps and successes. And he reprints a letter they sent to Steve Jobs, then CEO of NeXT.