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Choice Votes   Percent
Yes, I'm going to buy my first graphing calculator ever! 7 3.9%   
Yes, I'm going to buy a replacement for my old calculator 11 6.1%   
Yes, I want to buy a new calculator to add to my collection 24 13.3%   
Yes, but I'm going to try to sell it to someone and markup the price 0 0.0%   
No, my current calculator is fine 97 53.6%   
No, I want to, but I don't want to spend the money on it right now 24 13.3%   
Maybe, I'll see if any of my classes need me to buy one 7 3.9%   
I'm trying to build my own graphing calculator right now! 8 4.4%   
Graphing calculator? Does it hurt? 3 1.7%   

Survey posted 2005-08-28 03:53 by Jon.

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Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

By the way, isn't there a program to make more RAM available for the TI-83/4 Plus SE? I saw there's 128K RAM in it, but only 24K available...

Reply to this comment    28 August 2005, 19:20 GMT


Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Zarel  Account Info
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The rest is used for the operating system stuff.

Reply to this comment    28 August 2005, 19:52 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Zarel  Account Info
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That means no, by the way.

Reply to this comment    28 August 2005, 19:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Num Account Info

If someone could develop a program for more memory or ram...

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 00:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Snave2000  Account Info

If I'm not mistaken, Omnicalc (flash app) does that with its "virtual calculator" function for SEs (it gives you another 24k of RAM to use as a second calculator; can't combine the two, though...) It's definitely a possibility, I think....(of course, someone just has to do it....)

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 04:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Num Account Info

The problem is, with my trusty 84+se, after a couple hours of use with the "virtual calc" mode turned on, It refuses to show my memory. 2nd, mem, all, ERR: MEM. The only way to get rid of it, is to reset my ram. Other than that, Omnicalc works.

Reply to this comment    31 August 2005, 00:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Snave2000  Account Info

Yeah, I've had a similar problem; when I turn the calc off and on several times *interesting things* happen. Also, RAM clears seem to corrupt the stuff shown in the archive on the virtual calc. It's a good idea, but not very stable.

By the way, even when you get the ERR:MEM, you should be able to use 2:GOTO to scroll through parts of the programs list. Wherever the OS finds something corrupted it doesn't display it (the ERR:MEM) or it gives a huge value (>20000 bytes) for the variable size.

Reply to this comment    2 September 2005, 15:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

The TI-83 Plus has 32kB of RAM, of which 24kB are available for use.

The TI-83 Plus SE has 128kB of RAM, of which just 24kB are available for use too.

Why does the SE spend so much RAM to the OS?

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 10:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Snave2000  Account Info

It is usable, just not by the average user. I don't think the OS uses all of it; check out Omnicalc's virtual calc. That's one use of the extra RAM.

Reply to this comment    2 September 2005, 15:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
burntfuse  Account Info
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Yeah, especially since the OS isn't *that* different, AFAIK.

Reply to this comment    2 September 2005, 21:11 GMT

Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Coolv  Account Info
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I MAY buy a 83 series calculator (ie. the 84+ SE), so I have every series that has a link port on each calculator.

Reply to this comment    28 August 2005, 19:55 GMT


Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Num Account Info

If you have the money, get a ti 84+ se; best in the ti 83/84 line!

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 00:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

Yeah, indeed!

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 10:31 GMT

Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
3.141592654 Account Info

i bought a ti89 on ebay to add to my 83pse, since i'm going into calculus this year... no, i'm not going to use it to cheat... and because i really hate assembler, basic, and the slowness of z80's, and i love c and the speed of 68k's.

Reply to this comment    28 August 2005, 20:40 GMT

Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Alex Clink  Account Info

me too, but i got mine new and for cheap yay ebay!

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 03:08 GMT

Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Snave2000  Account Info

Hey! Z80 assembly isn't so bad...Look at Phoenix, for example. Z80 basic, I agree, is SLOW!

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 04:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
3.141592654 Account Info

i didnt mean i dont like the games made in assembler, i meant i hate programming in assembler.

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 20:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Alex Clink  Account Info

yeah jeez..

Reply to this comment    30 August 2005, 02:48 GMT


Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
joeman3429  Account Info

I love C too.
Basic is like a gatway drug. I learned basic on my ti-81 and progressed to ti-89 BASIC and now I'm addicted to TIGCC C programming, and basic just can't get me high anymore...

Reply to this comment    3 September 2005, 00:00 GMT

Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
burntfuse  Account Info
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Well, I wish I could answer "No, I'm building one", but that's just something I have sort of vaguely planned for the future, not a current project.

Reply to this comment    28 August 2005, 22:03 GMT


Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

Yeah... The first 64-bit calculator!

Specifiactions TI-64:
AMD Athlon TI 64-bit 5+ GHz CPU (hehe)
1 GB RAM
1 TB Flash ROM
Color screen

Programming languages:
TI-BASIC v2, C, C+, C++, java, and much more integrated by default.

I/O ports:
Default mouse
Default keyboard
Default (LCD) monitor

OS:
TINUX v4.20 (TI-Linux)
Kernel 2.6.14

But this is only a dream...
A sweet dream...

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 10:39 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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A pipe dream...

Don't forget the backpack of cooling equipment that you'll have to take around so you don't burn the eggs on the built-in egg frying pan!

That should be a feature on the G5 Mac mini - coffee warmer on top.

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 14:14 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

Yeah good idea!

Open a restaurant: The Calculator

Daily menu! :P

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 14:28 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Zeroko  Account Info
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If you used a slower processor (say, only a few hundred MHz (or underclocked a faster one)), it would not get so hot. & of course, there is always the Libretto (which is similar in size to the TI-92+, as far as I know), which demonstrates that it is at least theoretically possible. At any rate, it would be cool if they made a custom processor for their calculators (say, divide & multiply in the same time as add & subtract, & be designed to run TI-BASIC faster). Yes, I know they did that in the TI-80, but that was a long time ago, & was therefore too slow & limited.

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 15:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Snave2000  Account Info

Use water cooling; the cooling apparatus can be a lot smaller. In any case, this is now less of a calculator than a full-fleged pocket computer. Not that I would quibble over that if I had one in my hands!

Reply to this comment    2 September 2005, 15:34 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
burntfuse  Account Info
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Well, good luck stuffing that suitcase-sized calc into your pocket! :-)

Reply to this comment    29 August 2005, 20:43 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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What's with today's obsession with AMD processors? I know several people who refuse to use a computer if it doesn't have an AMD in it, and, in reading Mac websites, there are people decrying Apple for going to Intel instead of AMD. Doues it /really/ make that much difference?!?!?!?

Reply to this comment    30 August 2005, 14:10 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

AMD is almost similar to Intel, but:

AMD is cheaper and even better than Intel

IE Intel has a 3 GHz CPU, than AMD has a 3+ GHz CPU. The plus-sign means: comparable with Intel speed, but the real freq is lower, for example just 2,2 GHz.

My AMD is much slower though, just 807 MHz :P

Reply to this comment    30 August 2005, 15:39 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
burntfuse  Account Info
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It's just incredibly stupid of manufacturers to compare processors by clock speed anyways. MIPS would be a much more accurate measure of power.

Reply to this comment    1 September 2005, 01:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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Here: try this: it's just as unlikely, but is a little more realistic (I think)

IBM 50MHz PowerPC 601
10 MB RAM
20 MB ROM
Grayscale screen

Programming languages:
TI-BASIC v2, C, C++, Java (possibly a limited version)
or may I suggest Perl to replace all of the above?
(C+ does not exist)

I/O ports:
USB (with HW hub-handling capability)
TI-Presenter out
TI-link (traditional stereo headphone-like one)

OS:
TI-OS/AMS 4 (integrating Apple's old 68k > PPC emulator)

But I'd go for a full HW3 v200 successor (I want USB!).

Reply to this comment    30 August 2005, 14:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Zeroko  Account Info
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Sounds good, except I would personally prefer the memory numbers to be powers of 2.

Also, a LISP interpreter would be really nice (although probably terribly slow)...so maybe a LISP machine calculator? :)

Reply to this comment    1 September 2005, 04:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you going to buy a new calculator for this academic year?
Kaaiman  Account Info

LISP??? What does that mean?

Reply to this comment    1 September 2005, 16:04 GMT


Re: What is LISP?
Zeroko  Account Info
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Lots of Irritating & Superfluous Parentheses :)
Seriously, though, it stands for LISt Processor. It is a programming language in which, among other things, functions can be stored in variables & passed as parameters.

A simple example of ANSI Common LISP would be:

(defun fact (x) (cond ((eq x 0) 0) (t (* x (fact (- x 1))))))
(fact 7)

Which would return 5040.

Reply to this comment    3 September 2005, 04:08 GMT

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