Ron Avitzur

Ron Avitzur

Ron Avitzur is a software developer. He worked with Apple Computer in the early 1990s. After Apple cancelled his project, Graphing Calculator he, together with his friend Greg Robbins, continued to work for free, sneaking into the building every day in order to continue development of the software. [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=284 "Should I Stay Or Should I Go," "This American Life," March 11, 2005] ] When completed, the software was so impressive that Apple executives used it as their standard demonstration of the then-new PowerPC chips, and agreed to ship the calculator with Mac OS 9.

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External links

* [http://www.pacifict.com/Story/ The Graphing Calculator Story]
* [http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66138,00.html Wired News - Worming Into Apple]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6777636/site/newsweek/ Newsweek - They Hacked Real Good, for Free]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567 Google Video of Ron Avitzur]


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