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iWork box and install DVD (version 9.0.3, 2009)

Apple described iWork ’09 for Mac OS X as “a suite of productivity applications for Apple computers. The suite includes a word processor (Pages), spreadsheet (Numbers), and a presentation application (Keynote).”

Information about each application was printed on the back of the box:

Pages ’09
Intuitive word processing and page layout.

  • Choose from over 180 Apple-designed templates
  • Focus on your writing with new full-screen view
  • Easily lay out newsletters, posters, flyers, and more

Numbers ’09
Innovative, surprisingly powerful spreadsheets.

  • Mix tables, charts, and graphics on a freeform canvas
  • Use over 250 functions with visual placeholders
  • Make sense of your data with interactive Table Categories

Keynote ’09
Incredible presentations, incredibly easy.

  • Animate objects automatically with Magic Move
  • Create dramatic text, image, and object transitions
  • Add beautiful 3D chart animations

This version of iWork touted its ability to “exchange documents with anyone” by opening documents from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—or saving in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats.

The interior of the box slid out and opened, revealing an install DVD of version 9.0.3 of the iWork apps. The slide-out part of the package included a box with a top that opened to reveal a mini-manual and software licensing information.

Another version of this product artwork includes a “stamp” that specifies this product as the “’09” version of iWork, but this box only uses the iWork logo and only mentions the version on the bottom label.

Source: Apple

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ClarisWorks 4.0 for Macintosh (6 3.5-inch disks, 1996)

In early days of personal computers, a series of “Works” applications were released with a few traits in common. Software packages such as Microsoft Works, AppleWorks GS (for the Apple II GS), and ClarisWorks, all contained a package of simplified applications sold as a set and were usually accessed through a launcher application. For example, when launching AppleWorks, a user would launch the application and decide if they wanted to create a word processing file, a spreadsheet, a drawing document, or a database by clicking the appropriate icon.

ClarisWorks has a complicated history. In general, it began as AppleWorks (with earlier versions under different names), switched to ClarisWorks, switched back to AppleWorks, and was replaced by iWork.

This set of six 3.5-inch floppy disks contain an installer for ClarisWorks 4.0.

A fascinating history of ClarisWorks/AppleWorks is available from Bob Hearn on a page published by MIT. I wholeheartedly agree with the author who writes, “RIP ClarisWorks, ‘the best-loved application for the Mac,’ 1991–2007.”

Interestingly, this history is somewhat preserved by Apple’s iWork concept. Currently, Apple’s three productivity apps—Keynote, Pages, and Numbers—are referred to collectively as iWork. Although the apps are separate, their user interfaces and behaviors make the apps function very much as a set. This may also be the reason so many users incorrectly refer to iWork as “iWorks.”

This set of disks was among the final 3.5-inch floppy disks produced by Apple since in 1998 Apple released the iMac and officially stopped including floppy drives in their products. My collection also includes a ClarisWorks 4.0 CD installer, also from 1996.

Sources: Wikipedia (AppleWorks, floppy disk), Macintosh Garden, MIT