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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #45 on: July 25, 2010, 12:57:33 pm »
There is a thread somewhere around here with a xkcd with a similar theme.
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #46 on: July 25, 2010, 04:35:30 pm »
Wow. That story is amazing. Talk about enabling interrupts.
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #47 on: July 29, 2010, 04:50:23 pm »
Quote from: MRide on July 24, 2010, 12:59:35 pm
It seems that one good thing TI did was to make the calcs durable.
So true, except of course the TI-80 :P (Lot of people at school had those and when they felt on the floor, it didn't take much for the screen to break)
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #48 on: July 29, 2010, 06:02:26 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 29, 2010, 04:50:23 pm
Quote from: MRide on July 24, 2010, 12:59:35 pm
It seems that one good thing TI did was to make the calcs durable.
So true, except of course the TI-80 :P (Lot of people at school had those and when they felt on the floor, it didn't take much for the screen to break)

But I would say that the TI-80 is TI's worst graphing calculator anyway, with it's small screen, simpler mathematics (I think- it was the middle school calculator, wasn't it?), lack of a link port, and assembly support.

By comparison, even the TI-81 is much better (especially now that it's been hacked for assembly).
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #49 on: July 29, 2010, 08:23:07 pm »
Yeah it was one of the worst, except in terms of RAM, it would be the 81. But yeah even the LCD is worse on the 80. So hard to see even at lv 9 contrast. It was replaced by the 73
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #50 on: July 31, 2010, 12:37:35 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 29, 2010, 08:23:07 pm
Yeah it was one of the worst, except in terms of RAM, it would be the 81. But yeah even the LCD is worse on the 80. So hard to see even at lv 9 contrast. It was replaced by the 73

Wow, how much RAM does the 81 have?

And how did TI pick these numbers? They don't seem to be in order :P
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #51 on: July 31, 2010, 02:15:43 am »
2400 bytes of user RAM (8 KB RAM chip). I still managed to make an entire RPG for it, though :P
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #52 on: August 03, 2010, 01:57:10 pm »
Yeah, the TI-80 was awful. It used the small font always (the screen was only 48*64, half the size of that on other calcs), so certain symbols, like *, took up more space than other characters. It also used a non-z80 processor. (Did we ever find out what processor it was, exactly?)
And nice on the RPG, DJ. I don't think I've said that yet ;D
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #53 on: August 03, 2010, 02:09:16 pm »
I've never "dropped" a Ti-84+ or Ti-84+ Silver Edition, but I feel like they can last longer than a Ti-83+ if both are dropped exactly the same way.  I've always complained about the "bulkiness" of the Ti-84+, but I wonder if it would last under pressure.

Not to go off topic, but there was never a regular Ti-84, was there?
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #54 on: August 03, 2010, 02:11:52 pm »
Nope, just a TI-84+ and SE
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #55 on: August 03, 2010, 02:53:22 pm »
TI may suck at making OS's now but, they do make one durable calculator.
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #56 on: August 03, 2010, 04:39:50 pm »
yep.  which tells you the programming part of the company sucks, and the manufacturing part is great.
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #57 on: August 03, 2010, 04:53:03 pm »
Quote from: MRide on August 03, 2010, 04:39:50 pm
yep.  which tells you the programming part of the company sucks, and the manufacturing part is great.
Well, the second part is only partly true. The LCDs have gotten worse and worse, and they removed all the extra RAM pages because of different RAM chips, so...
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #58 on: August 03, 2010, 04:56:50 pm »
Plus, considering that the Nspire is pretty thin
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Re: TI-83 Plus Saves Student from Bullet
« Reply #59 on: August 03, 2010, 05:01:31 pm »
Quote from: calcdude84se on August 03, 2010, 01:57:10 pm
Yeah, the TI-80 was awful. It used the small font always (the screen was only 48*64, half the size of that on other calcs), so certain symbols, like *, took up more space than other characters. It also used a non-z80 processor. (Did we ever find out what processor it was, exactly?)
And nice on the RPG, DJ. I don't think I've said that yet ;D

Strangely, by looking at the TI-80 ROMs I've dumped (3.0 & 4.0), it seems to be a 16-bits processor.
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