Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story

avitzur writes with a link to the story behind the Macintosh Graphing Calculator. An excerpt from this strange account: "It's midnight. I've been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I'm not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation."

Comments

Re:Dedication

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you nuts? People like that are worse than the f*cking Indians! Work for free? How are we supposed to compete with that?

Re:what do EA employees think of this?

[IdleTime]

I wonder what those folks think of this level of dedication?

I can't tell you what EA people would say, but I can tell you that if this story is not written as a humorous piece, the guy is a first class moron.

And I will go so far as to say that any person who accepts to work 50-60-70-80 or more hours a week is a moron too. Why anyone would work 2 jobs for the pay of one is mindboggling. If a boss had told me to do that I would laugh and march out of the company faster than anything you have ever seen. Only in USA is slavery still allowed.