Help fill in the MS Office blanks
Just checking through the Microsoft Office standalone products stuff, I made some quick notes about what is still needed.
Other Unix versions? Word 5.1 had a SCO unix port, but there must have been others.
Were there other early DOS ports to non-IBM compatible DOS machines?
Forign language versions? Not sure there is any complete list. Too many to count for the later products.
Microsoft Write for Macintosh - Disks images, manual scans
Microsoft Write for Atari - Disk images, manual scans
Microsoft Word 1.00 for DOS - Disk Images (Current Manual is for all 1.x)
Microsoft Word 1.10 for DOS - Disk Images
Microsoft Word 1.00 for Macintosh - Genuine Disk Images and Manual
Microsoft Word 2.0 for DOS - Manual
Microsoft Word 3.0 for DOS - Manaul
(Note: There was no Word 2.x for Macintosh)
Microsoft Word 3.00 for Macintosh - Disk images (Current Manual is for all 3.x)
Microsoft Word 3.01 for Macintosh - Disk images
Microsoft Word 3.02 for Macintosh - Disk Images
Microsoft Word 4.0 for DOS - Manual
Microsoft Word 5.0 for DOS - Manual
Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS - Manual
Microsoft Word 1.x for Windows - Manual (Probably the same for 1.0 and 1.1?)
Microsoft Word 4.0 for Macintosh - Manual
Microsoft Word 1.x for OS/2 - Manual
Microsoft Word 5.x for Unix - Manual
Microsoft Word ?.? for AT&T Unix PC - Disk Images and Manual
Microsoft Word 2.x for Windows - Manual
Microsoft Word 5.0 for Macintosh - Disk images
Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh - Manual
Microsoft Word 6.x for DOS/Windows/Mac - Manuals
Microsoft Word 95 - Manaual
(Was there a 1.44mb version or a CD version?)
Microsoft Word 97 - Manuals, English floppy version.
Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh - any disk images, manuals
Microsoft Excel 1.00 for Macintosh - Disk dump
Microsoft Excel 2.2 for Mac and OS/2 - Manuals
Note: There was no 2.0 or 2.1 for Mac
Microsoft Excel 3.0 for Macintosh - Disk images
Microsoft Excel 3.x Mac, OS/2, Windows - Manuals
Microsoft Excel 4.x Mac, Windows - Manuals
Microsoft Excel 5.0 (no "a") for Macintosh - English Disk Images
Microsoft Excel 5.x Mac, Windows, Windows NT - Manuals.
Microsoft Excel 95 - Manual
(Was there a 1.4mb or CD version?)
Microsoft Excel 97 - Floppy or CD x86 disk images, and manuals.
Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh - disk images, manuals.
Microsoft Access 1.x - Manual
Microsoft Access 2.x - Manual
Microsoft Access 95 - Manual
Microsoft Access 97 - Any CD or floppy disk images and manual scans!
Forethought PowerPoint 1.0 for Macintosh - Manual scan
Microsoft Powerpoint 1.01 for Macintosh - Did these rebadged versions differ from Forethought's release? Disks should be different.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2.0 for Macintosh - disk images
Microsoft PowerPoint 2.01 for Macintosh - English disk images and manual
Microsoft PowerPoint 3.x for Mac/Windows - manuals
Microsoft PowerPoint 4.x for Mac/Windows - manuals
Microsoft PowerPoint 95 - Disk images of non-"a" version. Manual.
(Was there a DMF or CD version?)
Microsoft PowerPoint 97 - Any CD or Floppy disk images, manual.
(Was there no DEC Alpha version?)
Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh - Any disk images, manauls.
Microsoft Outlook 97 - CD/Flopy disk images, manuals. I think there was a standalone version.
Comments
I have some of these manuals such as Word 5.0 for DOS, and Access 1.0. I'd have to quit my day job attempting to scan the manuals though.
Yes products such as Word 95 and Excel 95 were available on 3.5" at retail. However, I believe with '97 it became only available by sending in the coupon to Microsoft. Outlook 97 was also available as standalone version.
Well, I know what you mean. I have a bound manual sitting on my flatbed scanner right now that I have been scanning in a few pages at a time for I don't even remember how long now.
But ideally, one might find some cheap, ratty, mildew-infested manuals that they don't mind ripping up, cut off the spine, and then feed it to a document scanner. Those make very quick work even large manuals. Did that to a ratty Windows 2.x manual I acquired for cheap a while back.
Fortunately, the earlier DOS products will sometimes have nice 3-ring or spiral bound manuals, that don't have to be torn up and can be easily fed through a document scanner.
I don't believe there was an Alpha version of anything but Word and Excel in Office; 32-bit Office 4.2 still shipped 16-bit PowerPoint. I guess DEC never bothered porting it to Alpha.
I have a copy of Office 97 Professional that includes Access 97 as part of the install. Is this what you're looking for, or are you looking for a separate Access 97 disc?
I also remember that the Computer History Museum had the Word 1.00 for DOS binaries + source code available for download.
The above were just for the individual standalone programs. Despite the post title, I didn't even look at the all-in-one Office packages. Those are mostly complete with a few documented redumps needed.
Now, on the other hand the manuals are probably the same for both Office and the standalone products. So if anyone has manuals they want to scan from one they should be applicable to the other.
Oh, and the CHM has Word 1.x for Windows source, not the earlier DOS version.
I retrieved my copy of Excel 3.0 and scanned the Getting Started guide. It's applicable for Windows and OS/2. For nearly 100 pages, it worked out to be a 35 MB PDF, so have zipped it up and made it accessible online.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cFmkE7guMwwZ79EIggVw4ggwYBOMozOm
The User Guide is about 750 pages - not sure when I'll get to that.