![]() MS Word and other "modern" word processors, by contrast, bury the user in features he will never want, use or understand, and then pretend to read his mind…badly. It does everything I need and not one thing more, exactly as if it had been designed for me personally. I still use WriteNow 4, last updated in February 1994 and still easier to use than any word processor except the original MacWrite, as my primary word processor for most letters and documents that I'll print. I haven't seen or heard of a copy of Macpaint in use anywhere in at least 15 years. I don't remember what the last version of MacPaint was by the time that version came out I had long since moved on to more advanced image processing applications. MacWrite Pro may still be available on Ebay from time to time I'm not sure any earlier version of the program will run in OS 9. (MacPaint was also a direct ancestor of Photoshop.) MindWrite, FullWrite, and WriteNow were worthy successors to MacWrite SuperPaint and FullPaint and others I've forgotten took the revolutionary ideas that were introduced in MacPaint to a new level. ![]() MacWrite's and MacPaint's final versions were discontinued sometime in the early 1990s, by which time they were creaky antiques that, having served their purpose of making the Mac useful from the day it was introduced, had been outstripped in every respect by the third-party applications they inspired. Macs have obviously come a long way since then, and so have word processing and graphics applications. Of course one could (and I did) save lots of time and labor by buying a second, external 400K floppy drive - for $400 or $500, I forget which. ![]() ![]() The Mac had no hard drive then, so the only way to save your work was to eject the diskette, insert another diskette on which to save the data, and then swap the two disks in and out half a dozen or more times - a process by which it often took more than a minute to save a minuscule 2k word processing file. ![]() Very cool, ground-breaking programs back in early 1984, when they were the only two applications that existed for the Mac, and one could (and I did) run the original Mac 128K from a single 400K floppy diskette that contained the entire Mac OSĪnd both applications. ![]()
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