Paper Tape in Calculator

One of the interesting features in OS X’s standard calculator application is the Paper Tape. Easily brought up by typing Command-T or selecting Window from the menu bar and then choosing “Show Paper Tape,” I have found that it makes Calculator about twice as useful for me than before.

What paper tape does is quite simple, but useful. It is a window separate from the regular calculator which essentially keeps a record of everything you’ve entered in the calculator, allowing you to have a display similar to that on most Texas Instruments graphing calculators that high school and college students worldwide should be familiar with. I have found that the Paper Tape makes me much more inclined to use Calculator when I need to quickly add a lot of numbers together, since I no longer need to worry about having missed one term.

I think that the Paper Tape may have been added in Leopard, can anyone running Tiger or any older versions of OS X confirm this?

Submitted on February 2, 2008 at 2:25 am - Paper Tape in Calculator was written by Omer Zach - There have been 5 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, OS X Tips - Tags: Calculator, Paper Tape

5 Responses to “Paper Tape in Calculator”

Veronica

Tiger had it, activated from the menu bar. February 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 am
R

I'm running 10.4.11 and it has this feature, but it's not under Window menubar, it's under View->Show Paper Tape. And the Command-T shortcut doesn't work either. February 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 am
Ceeinbc

It's found under "View" in the menu bar for Tiger -- sadly, there doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut available. February 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Discerptor

Indeed it is in Tiger. It's in the "View" menu, not the "Window" one, though. February 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Neelesh

I've used in it OS X 10.2 March 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am