The Graphing Calculator Story--Only at Apple

The amazing story behind the Macintosh Graphing Calculator, as told by Ron Avitzur the Graphing Calculator's principal engineer, is now available in electronic writing on his Pacific Tech web site.

The Graphing Calculator is one of the most amazing apps that has ever been made for the Mac OS running on the PowerPC CPU. Enter almost any equation, click "Graph" and The Graphing Calculator provides an instant 2D or 3D visual rendition. Incredibly it was distributed free with every Power Macintosh using the Mac OS from System 7.1.2, we believe, through 9.2.2. We have version 1.3 that came with Mac OS 9.2.2 that we have used in Classic Mode. We previously noted that Ron recently released a beta of the free version 1.4 for Mac OS X. Pacific Tech also markets a commercial version 3.x.

As amazing as The Graphing Calculator itself is, the story behind its creation as told by Ron is equally as amazing. Here is an exerpt,

"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."

...only at Apple. Ron Avitzur just posted the full story on his company's (Pacific Tech) web page. According to his note to us, it is the first written account. [Bill Fox]