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.

UPDATE: By the way, Graphing Calculator is still in modern Macs' "Applications (Mac OS 9)" folders as a Classic app, and a native OS X version can be downloaded at the site. But Tiger, it should be noted, comes with a new Graphing Calculator app that is truly astonishing in size and scope—if it has any DNA from the Pacific Tech version, it's well hidden. This thing is hard core.