This page is a wiki. Please login or create an account to begin editing.


12 posts / 0 new
Last post
Arthegall's picture
Offline
Joined: 2011 Dec 31
Let's find Microsoft Word 1.0

It goes without saying that Microsoft Word is a historically important application.
Yet I am unaware of a copy of version 1.x for Mac online.

We're quickly approaching 28-years-old on MS Word 1 for Mac, and any still-imageable original media out there won't last much longer. I've got an original backup disk that was my father's, but it's corrupt. I've seen two disk on Ebay, one an original backup disk like my own that was pulled before it sold, and another a user-made copy offered with a high-priced hardware lot.

I think it would be a good thing for all of us to be on the lookout for a copy.
Not to be doomsdayish, but time may be running out.

Screens here: http://www.knubbelmac.de/bildschau.html?basis=ms-word-1

Comments

Arthegall's picture
Offline
Joined: 2011 Dec 31

Thanks to a helpful tip, I have gotten a hold of the German version of the Word 1.0 stored at themacarchive.net. I have packaged that app in a disk-image and uploaded it here. It's a start. The image doesn't have a system folder or any of the other original content like the help file.

Mulder's picture
Offline
Joined: 2012 Jan 29

There seems to be a copy of it in SheepMyShaver123's archive here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qygnn3f2zmn

Offline
Joined: 2009 Sep 7

That's actually the German version...

Mulder's picture
Offline
Joined: 2012 Jan 29

Did you actually test it to see if it's the German version? SheepMyShaver123 usually labels non-English versions of anything in the archive, so unless you tested it, you can't say that for certain.

IIGS_User's picture
Offline
Joined: 2009 Apr 8

Copied from one to another, maybe?

Mulder's picture
Offline
Joined: 2012 Jan 29

No, SheepMyShaver123 has had that application since 2009, so it's been there for quite some time.

Offline
Joined: 2009 Sep 7

Fired it up in minivmac -- it's the German version.

slomacuser's picture
Offline
Joined: 2009 Apr 23

Here are backups from my floppies it is version 1.05

Photo: http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1440/1380680327_1187d902f5_z.jpg?zz=1

Disk image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/86210/Word105slomacuser.zip

Arthegall's picture
Offline
Joined: 2011 Dec 31

Excellent! Thanks Slomac! (Your disks look awesome, btw).

I'll update the archive.

Do you have DC 4.2 images by chance?

slomacuser's picture
Offline
Joined: 2009 Apr 23

Will archive with DC 4.2 didn't know before that 6.3.3 makes problems.

Offline
Joined: 2009 Nov 14

Word 1.x.
That's pretty surreal. What was the version of Word universally despised by Mac users? Was it 5 or 6?