The Mac Calculator’s Original Design Came From Letting Steve Jobs Play with Menus for Ten Minutes

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With the iPad, we had to wait 14 years for a calculator – albeit a very powerful one – to finally be included as standard with the operating system. With the Mac, such a calculator was part of the operating system from 1984 onwards, with the release of the first Macintosh computer. However, this calculator has an interesting history, as it turns out. Ben Edwards, Senior AI Reporter at Ars Technica, recounts this in his article: "The Mac calculat…