A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003)
What a journey down memory lane.  I have more than one long-standing client who had substantial investments in data drawn on Mark Cutter&#x27;s MacDraw program, including some data files going back to 1985 (a year after the Mac release).  The collaboration and ease of use between MacDraw and MacPaint files into MacWrite documents is something those clients wish they still had today - current offerings from Microsoft Office, Adobe and Google Drive do not even come close in terms of personal productivity.  I remember when the only programs you could get on Mac were MacDraw, MacPaint, MacWrite and Multiplan (Microsoft&#x27;s take on VisiCalc, to one day become Excel).<p>Needless to say, many of those documents found their upgrade path into ClarisWorks then AppleWorks.  iWorks seemed to be a misadventure, but upon the end of life of AppleWorks, a portion of those drawing files were converted by EazyDraw Retro offered by Dave Mattson and Dekorra Optics and today still breathe life in version 10.7.4 of EazyDraw.<p>It is sobering and inspiring to see business continuity with data files whose information persists after 37 years following a surprisingly seamless upgrade journey.  Kudos to all the programmers and entrepreneurs who made that possible.