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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. Re:The real story by michaeldot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wasn't there a story here this week on the Linux industry being worth $35 billion.

    Does that make OSS developers [punches numbers into his non-graphing abacus] 4.5 times more idiotic?

  2. Al Gore? by sammy_cda · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought Al Gore invented the Macintosh Graphing Calculator?

  3. Re:High Praise For Mediocrity by imaginate · · Score: 0, Troll

    If right-click is a kludge, what the hell is command click or apple click, or whatever it is? At least the right click can be done with one hand.

    Besides, people are expected to use more than one finger on the keyboard - why is it kludgy for them to do the same on a mouse?

  4. Re:Article Text without silly next buttons by Paul+Lamere · · Score: 0, Troll

    Imagine a world where if you didn't legally work for Apple, you couldn't write a program for their computer.
    So .. what do you have to do if you want to write a program for your iPod?