Among them were myself, Jeff Erickson, Scott Holdaway, Scott Lindsey, Tom Hoke, Mike Hibbetts, and Syd Polk.

It was an Apple II that acted like a Mac! StyleWare hired a bunch of computer science students from Rice University to write software for this new machine.

In 1986, Apple introduced what looked to be an interesting new computer: the Apple II GS. StyleWare made Apple II software (MultiScribe). It all started with a little software company in Houston called StyleWare, run by Kevin Harvey. In fact, Claris was around long before ClarisWorks, as explained below. People also seem to confuse Claris the company and ClarisWorks the program. This history is not about the first one, which was a text-based program for the Apple II. In fact, there have been three completely different programs known as AppleWorks. This is not helped by the fact that Apple renamed ClarisWorks to AppleWorks a couple of years ago. There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the relationship of the various programs named AppleWorks and ClarisWorks.

If you haven't heard of it, you will likely not find this page particularly interesting! A lot of the material here is rapidly becoming ancient history I thought I had better set down as many recollections as I could, before everybody forgets ClarisWorks completely. ClarisWorks was one of the most popular Macintosh programs of all time, with over 20 million active users at one point. This page is about the history of ClarisWorks (now called AppleWorks). This is my little tale of adventure in Silicon Valley. This page is now also available in French, thanks to Stéphane Ascoët. Note: this page was written in early 2003. RIP ClarisWorks, ' the best-loved application for the Mac', 1991-2007.Ī Brief History of ClarisWorks As seen by Bob Hearn Active development on AppleWorks evidently ceased some years ago, but the program continued to be sold. There has been no official cancellation announcement, but AppleWorks no longer shows up under the list of software titles on the online Apple Store, and perhaps more significantly, now redirects to. A Brief History of ClarisWorks New, 8/10/07: With the introduction of iWork '08, which includes the new Numbers spreadsheet, it appears that ClarisWorks, aka AppleWorks, is finally dead.

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