Re: AW5 vs WP 1.1 for 2e

[appleworks51@yahoo.com]

> Agreed, Bev--but by this time, many AW users had already shipped their
> disks back and forth to their Beagle Buddies a few times for transitions
> from earlier versions, and were tired of figuring out what was current
> and what needed updating. �Just another layer of nuisance characteristic
> of any slightly incompatible upgrade...

AppleWorks 4 and 5 users did not need to mail in original disks.
There's a TimeOut updater right on the  /Extras disk which updates the
TO. files on your disk. It actually copied the new version to your
TimeOut directory, letting the new program replace the old.  In fact,
if you were just a little bit dishonest, you could rename one of your
TimeOut accessories (such as a help screen) to a program you did not
own, run TO Updater, and bam, you'd get the real program.

As a Beagle Buddy in Houston, Texas, I never felt that updating
TimeOut was an inconvenience. Every update and bug fix was a positive
thing, and every new version was an event. It was hugely popular, and
to this day I am grateful for the friendships and for the things I
learned in that club atmosphere.

A much more practical reason for not updating from AW3 was backward
incompatibility of AppleWorks 4/5 with the AppleWorks 3.0 version of
your files. Once you saved your data base under AW 4/5, you had 60
categories instead of 30, and there was no going back. Spreadsheets
were incompatible only if you used one of the new features. Even I ran
parallel versions of my data bases for months, but once I gave in and
went solely to AW4/5, I was very, very happy and there was no going
back for me (sort of like broadband vs dial-up today).

Beverly Cadieux