Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 231

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 231. Here are my solutions to them.

1: From a nutshell to create a collection of papers to store your data.

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FileMaker

From a nutshell (it originated from Nashoba’s Nutshell for MS-DOS) to create (make) a collection of papers (a file) to store your data (what it does).

2: First a beagle then a fruit factory, this office suite was abandoned almost 20 years ago.

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ClarisWorks

First a beagle (originally from BeagleWorks) then a fruit (apple) factory (works, AppleWorks being its predecessor), this office suite (what it was) was abandoned almost 20 years ago (its last version was released in January 2004).

3: Almost a dogcow but an ungentlemanly man made designs for your plotter until 1991.

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Claris CAD

Almost a dogcow (the name Claris is uncannily similar to Apple’s fictional ‘dogcow’ Clarus) but an ungentlemanly man (a cad) made designs for your plotter (what it did) until 1991 (last release in July 1991).

The common factor

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They are past and current products of Apple’s wholly-owned subsidiary Claris International, including what was formerly FileMaker.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.