> Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985
> while in school. That became Milo, and later became part of
> FrameMaker. Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed
> to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the
> original PowerPC computers, originated under unique circumstances.
>
> We finished in January 1994. Graphing Calculator has been part of
> the Macintosh ever since. Teachers around the world use it as an
> animated blackboard to illustrate abstract concepts visually. It
> shipped on more than twenty million machines. It never officially
> existed.
Graphing Calculator is a tool for quickly visualizing math. Just type
an equation and it is drawn for you without complicated dialogs or
commands.
It features symbolic and numeric methods for visualizing two and three
dimensional mathematical objects.
Animation is quick and easy.
Any equation can easily be turned into an animation. The slider
controls the value for n in this equation. Equations can be animated
on any variable.
?Ron Avitzur is visionary. Many of his visions are of the undead,
roaming the land, eating brains, dressing poorly. But some of his
visions are of future ?? -[Story][1]
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Free releases:
Version 1.0 is the original release which has shipped on over
10,000,000 machines since 1994. It is the last version available for
680x0 Macintosh computers.
v1.0 for 680x0
v1.0 for 680x0 with FPU
v1.0 for Power Macintosh
Tested and runs on System [7.5.5][2]
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Version 1.1 is a free release which ships with MacOS 8.6. It features:
? 2D curves
? 3D surfaces
? Inequalities
? Saving QuickTime movies
? Support for 3D hardware acceleration
Version 1.3 for Mac OS 9 features:
? 2D curves
? 3D surfaces
? Inequalities
? Save movies
? Save for Web saves HTML & PNG files
? Save as RTF export to word processors
? Acts as a web helper application
? Define functions and variables
? Piecewise defined functions
? Complex number arithmeti
All Graphic Calculator Viewers are Free.
v3.5 -(2004)
v4.1 -(2018)
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Commercial Releases
Version 2 is a commercial product with more functionality. The Windows
release is NuCalc.
Version 2.7
The Macintosh commercial release is Graphing Calculator 2.7 which adds
the following functionality:
? Independently scaled 2D axes
? Change the 3D background color
? Define functions and variables
? Copy and paste formulas as text
? Equations now line-break and scroll
? Ordinary differential equations
? Correct handling of fractional powers
? New functions
? Bessel functions
? floor, ceiling
? Piecewise defined functions
? Div, grad, and curl
? Vector dot, and cross products
? Symbolic summation notation
? Symbolic substitutions
? Integrals
Version 3 is the latest commercial release of the original Graphing
Calculator, beloved by students and teachers, which Apple has bundled
with all machines since the introduction of the Power Macintosh in
1994, (and which is still included with current machines in the
Application (Mac OS 9) folder if you install Classic).
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They say we should buy locally to support the locals. This software is
still available for purchase.
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See Also: [SuperGraph][3]
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC PPC (Carbonized) x86 (Intel:Mac)
[1]:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220201000000/http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
[2]:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/nucalc-10-graphing-calculator-10
[3]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/supergraph
