Re: The System 6 Video

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

in article 
94e25c57-cec3-4433-8590-5ff8d9c258f7@d23g2000vbm.googlegroups.com, Sean
Fahey at a2fan@hotmail.com wrote on 9/14/09 12:28 PM:

> ...and as to his offer to help with anything else, I already asked if
> 
> he could help us with Appleworks reclassification -- and iirc, he
> couldn't. But if anyone has anything else, I'll pass it along.
> 

Sean,

You _had_ to ask.

While Joe may not be able to help with the reclassification of AppleWorks
5.1,  perhaps there is something he can do regarding the AppleWorks 4
Reference Manual and the companion AppleWorks 5 Delta Manual.

In April I 'spoke' with Jerry Kindall, who worked for Joe at Quality, and he
confirmed that the AppleWorks 4 Reference Manual consisted of a single
Microsoft Word 5.1 file for _each_ chapter of the Manual.

I had hoped that I could obtain these files and convert the whole slew into
one .pdf, provided, of course, that I wouldn't step outside of legal bounds.
While Quality published the Reference Manual, I know they used portions of
Claris' AppleWorks 3 material, probably under some kind of license
arrangement.

Anyway, Jerry didn't have any of the original files, even though I think he
did the lion's share of the work compiling the AppleWorks 4 Reference
Manual. {Doug Cuff wrote the AppleWorks 5 Delta Manual}.

If Joe could cast about and find the source Word files for the AppleWorks 4
Reference Manual for our (permitted) use, it would be just swell. Count me
in for doing the pdf conversion. Moreover, adding the AppleWorks 5 Delta
Manual material would be gravy.

AppleWorks 5.1 has my vote for being one of the best 8-bit computer programs
ever written. It's a shame that the docs, which number in excess of 600
pages, are in limbo.


Hugh Hood