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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. Great Story but... by speedplane · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great Story, but I have no sympathy for big profit hungry coporations like Apple. They can make their own graphing calculator

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  2. The Irony by Deltaspectre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He made the monitor burst into flames? Well he just upped the ante by writing that... he burst the PacificT server into flames! (I know it wasn't his fault for the monitor, but I couldn't resist :D)

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