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Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« on: November 09, 2012, 01:48:23 pm »
Many TI-Nspire ClickPad and TI-Nspire+/CAS+ prototypes have been freely given by TI to students, teachers or engineers for beta-testing for years.

This became a problem when some testers tried to resale their prototypes on online shops, as they could easily be mistaken for production models, although they had early versions of the OS and couldn't be easily upgraded.


It seems the beta-testing of TI-Nspire TouchPad or TI-Nspire CX went different, as the same problem didn't happen.


But anyway, here is it finally - discover our first TI-Nsprie color prototype, the TI-Nspire Color, an EVT (Early Validation Tests) prototype of the non-CAS TI-Nspire CX:




Expect great discoveries soon, and why not some hints on the TI-84 Plus C, the future color version of the TI-84 Plus, as something happened at that time: non-CAS TI-Nspire CX dropped the TI-84 Plus emulator support, although the TI-84 Plus ROM remained available in the 3.0.1 non-CAS CX OS.



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http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10723
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2012, 01:52:35 pm »
Interesting. Would it be possible that they put the hardware of this model in the new color 84+ SE?
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2012, 01:59:31 pm »
Quote from: Keoni29 on November 09, 2012, 01:52:35 pm
Interesting. Would it be possible that they put the hardware of this model in the new color 84+ SE?

It's perfectly possible

And as it is an EVT prototype (2nd stage among 5 in TI-Nspire CX development) it might have significant hardware differences compared to production TI-Nspire CX.
Those differences are interesting as they help us figuring out dropped functionnalites, or functionnalities delayed/moved to another future model. ;)
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2012, 02:29:50 pm »
is that a same calculator that's in student software cd case screen?
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2012, 02:31:53 pm »
Critor, I again wonder how you get all these prototypes. Do you have too much time on your hands O.o
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2012, 02:47:09 pm »
School break ? ;)

And that's because I'm missing time, that I allmost didn't news on Omnimaga in October.
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2012, 02:48:17 pm »
Just kidding ;)
But really, do you just browse ebay for those or so?
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2012, 02:49:23 pm »
Like the TI-Nspire+, it's a loan from datamath.org.
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2012, 02:50:18 pm »
Ahaaa. Do you have such good contacts that they loan them to you? O.O
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2012, 04:14:49 pm »
Yup :D

And well, we exchange each other's discoveries, and since Joerg (THE Datamath person :P) and Critor are both collectors, they know they can trust each other for the devices safety :P

I've also met Joerg diretly at the 2012's T3 conference, and that reinforces contacts :)

(Yes, that's Mayim Bialik on the photo too :P)
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2012, 04:17:50 pm »
Aha :)
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2012, 06:48:04 pm »
Wow, great pics!  :)
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2012, 07:03:23 pm »
Wow that looks nice. Is the calc more blue-ish than the CX? It actually looks nice.

ALso off-topic but do you have a pic of that TI-83 Plus 2 calc as well Critor? I saw it mentionned in a TI-Planet news, but could not find any pic of it where I could actually see the text. D: (or if there was such pic in the news article, then it was 404'ing)
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2012, 08:06:20 pm »
No sorry, I don't have any pic of the TI-83 Plus 2.
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Re: Discovery of an Nspire Color prototype
« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2012, 08:07:46 pm »
Aw too bad. If you can contact the guy who had it, I wonder if he would be willing to send you one?
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