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Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story

Posted by timothy on from the reads-like-fiction dept.

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."

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  1. Slashdotted already by Arghdee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Typical. Just as it gets interesting, the server goes up in smoke :(

  2. Nice - now can I have an updated Newton? by Bodhammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Is there hope that somewhere, somebody is porting the Newton to hardware like the Zaurus SL-C3000?

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    nah...

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    "I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
  3. Re:Article Text without silly next buttons by The+Cisco+Kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wasnt trying to convert people, nor was I whining about that app not being available (I have no need for it).

    And I don't feel a need to hide what I think of MS. They are a convicted criminal, who lucked into an administration change that let the entire thing quietly go away with no remedy. IMNSHO, either the principals involved should have gone to jail, or MS should have had to make some real and considerable remedy, such as providing damages as *CASH* (not vouchers for MS products), or been forced to make changes to their software models to prevent them from locking out competitors.

    And you can whine that this would take away their 'freedom to innovate' all you want - its bullshit. MS doesnt innovate, they steal or buy ideas from would-be competitors. And as a company with a monopoly position in the market, yes there are some things that would be perectly legal for a non-monopolist to do which *ARE* illegal for MS to do.