Volunteer work for Apple and the Graphing Calculator

Anyone who was an Apple die-hard in the mid-90s loved the graphing calculator—it allowed you to rub your Wintel friend's noses in the sheer processing power of your new Risc PPC Mac.

So reading the story of it's very Apple development process was really a joy :) It should definately be included in any future edition of Insanely Great.

To get you interested, here is the last line and postscript from the story:

We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security.

After the events described, we made everything retroactively legitimate by licensing the software to Apple for distribution.

Also worth a look is the gallery of cool graphs at pacifict.com.