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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on February 10, 2014, 01:42:24 pm
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Critor just uploaded the following pictures of a TI-82 Plus EVT Prototype on TI-Planet:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/album.php?album_id=229
Unless this was modded from another calculator like the Cemetech TI-82 Plus (http://www.cemetech.net/news.php?id=630), this newly discovered calculator prototype seems intriguing, because if you look through the pictures gallery, one shows it running TI-83 Plus OS 1.19 (and Boot Code 1.01) (http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=229&image_id=3389) and another TI-84 Plus Silver Edition OS 2.53 MP (http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=229&image_id=3394). Normally, TI-83 Plus OSes cannot run on the TI-84 Plus nor vice-versa.
The calculator appears to have the same amount of archive (http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=229&image_id=3393) as the non-USB TI-83 Plus models.
That said, this seems like an old prototype because the calc shape uses the 1996-2003 casing (non-parcus models) rather than the 2004-present ones (TI-83 Plus.Fr USB, TI-84 Plus/SE/CSE and the newer TI-73 Explorer). The color scheme looks similar to the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition and the About menu shows www.ti.com/calc instead of the newer education.ti.com (http://education.ti.com/), even with OS 1.19 installed.
In the picture gallery (http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/album.php?album_id=229), you can also see how the hardware looks like. Hopefully there is more info from TI-Planet soon.
UPDATE: There is now an official news about it at http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=157467#p157467. This appears to be a replacement for the TI-82 Stats.Fr, so it is much newer than previously expected (to my surprise, considering it uses the original TI-83+ case instead of TI-84+). Also, apparently it is possible via special means to install an TI-73 or TI-84 Plus OS on a TI-83 Plus, although an MP OS would be rather unstable, so that would explain the OS 2.53 MP picture. The hardware seems very similar to a regular TI-83 Plus, except that two LR44 batteries of 1.5V each are used instead of one 3V CR1616 or CR1620. Read the news linked above for more info.