I worked on ClarisWorks for Kids as a programmer back in my Claris days. This is a retail box press sheet printed on paperboard. I got this from Kit Teater. She had already split the sheets in two because they were too large to handle and transport. Obviously, the real ones would not have been split this way. The next step would have been die cutting and scoring, then folding and glueing.
Here's the assembled box. My facebook friends Jon Pavely, Jen Brabson, and Jeff Songster also worked on the project. The product was built on code originally designed and written by my facebook friend, Bob Hearn among others. To learn more about that, see Bob's writeup.
This color scheme was unusual for Claris. The company followed a theme for all their packaging, except this one. This one broke the mould because it was targeted to kids age 5-11, so they gave it a more garish appearance.
This is what first generation Claris packaging looked like. I worked on the training materials for Claris CAD. I think it shipped in '89 or '90. I worked on a 47 minute instructional video (VHS!), a workbook, and disc of exercises.
This was how a typical Claris manual looked. We always shipped a quick start and a full featured User Guide.
Okay, not really Claris products, but here are my original Macintosh and ImageWriter manuals. I no longer have the computer or printer. :( I bought my first computer in March 1984, a 128K Mac and ImageWriter for about $3,000. Student loan money helped a great deal! Paid it all back, too. My friend Mark Seymour worked on the manual although we did not know each other at the time.
Claris always celebrated its successes. Award discs like these were typically handed out to team members after a product was shipped.
Dan Eilers had these made up for all employees. Our sales graph resembled a hockey stick and he wanted to make sure we got the point.