A Brief History of Appleworks
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The article provides a historical overview of AppleWorks, a pioneering productivity suite for the Apple II, sparking nostalgia and discussion among retro computing enthusiasts.
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It's such a second nature to me after decades of use that changing would be sand in the gears, and no other integrates suite comes close even in 2025.
This is an excellent history starting with ClarisWorks: https://web.archive.org/web/20160310121630/http://groups.csa...
And some discussion of this source when it was still available live on the web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32267817