Its a tool that is often used in school. A tool that in retrospect I would of assumed was just a typical Apple program. But the story behind it, show that it was anything but typical.
[...]Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.
I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I was unemployed.
I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple’s doors, so I just kept showing up.
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Below is a talk one of the programmers gave at Google.
To give you an idea of what can be done with the Graphing Calculator. One of the programmers has a blog and a section of that blog is dedicated to Examples that people have sent in.
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