This was my initial reaction upon visiting ticalc.org for the third time today: "OOOOOOH MY GOSH... OH MY GOSH! TI IS STILL ALIVE!" *rushes to tell girlfriend about it, who probably couldn't care less*

Anyway, after my little happy outburst, I thought "If this is fake, I'm going to be so mad" but it has official links to TI, so it has to be real. That would be a really great prank though... to get TI in on it, too (though that would never happen) ;-)

I thought i was the only one who had these problems with my girlfriend but you make me feel better now..

LOL...before I started dating my current girlfriend she found this site with me on it and all and kind of shocked me. She couldn't really care less that I spend some time elping out with the site, but her Mom is a teacher and she knows all to well about TI calcs. She mentions it every once in a while almost like she despised me for it.

But hey unless I can find someone to take over my filearchiveing duties...I'm stuck here :-) j/k

A girl I know just thinks I'm wierd for liking calcs :'-(.....

Everyone I know thinks I'm wierd for liking calcs, but when they have troubles, I'm quicker than a call or email to TI-Cares. (Especially in math class.) There's this one girl who has an 83+SE that turns off and clears the RAM every third keypress or so.

LOL!!!! Have you tried resetting the whole thing?

I think it still "sucks" because it SHOULD have at least a 92 Mhz processor, built in backlight, 32MB flash rom and 5MB RAM. It should also have support for external memory storage such as CD burning and memory card readers. In addition, it should have built in computer networking & internet capabilities...

Nice improvements with design and addition of USB though...

(This TI-84+ project makes it easier for me to write up my MyPC app project.)

lol...this is only a calc...

iv it kan perform these functions itz like a havin a mini computer and the college test takers will ban da 89 titanium to b use in takin tests.

It meets their requirements:
-No QWERTY keyboard
-No sound
-No wireless comm
-No popup display
-No PDA hardware (touchscreen, color)
-Not an x86

The 89 Titanium will be banned by the College Board, who administers the SAT and ACT tests, because it has a computer algebra system.

Umm no. All 68k calcs have CAS. If they were though they would have done it by now.

The TI-89 is already banned from the ACT, and has always been as far as I know.
As for the SAT, note that TI's press release for the TI-89 Titanium doesn't mention it. But don't take this to mean it for sure isn't allowed there anymore, it is your responsibility to double-check.

What do you mean by 'popup display' and 'x86'?

This reminds me, they banned the 92/V200 because they have a QWERTY keyboard. Ugh. I mean, it makes no difference!

I know but they're worried about security and someone typing up all the questions on their calc and then taking them to the outside world where they would then have to make a new test pretty much every year.

Uhh...they already DO make a new one every year! lol

Well then what the hell! I want to use my V200 so I don't have to erase all my games on my 89 to fit SMG and Calculus Tools just in case I don't know something a need a "hint".

I took both of the SAT II math exams (missed only 30 points on each), Calculus Tools might help on one question or two, maybe.

It's not a laptop, and the screen is not higher than the case and tilted toward the user, which makes it easier to see the screen.

They should base the exclusions on functions, not keyboard arrangements. <sarcasm>Wow, because this calc has a QWERTY keyboard like a PC, I think I'll exclude it from tests!!!</sarcasm> Seriously-what idiot thought of that????

My point exactly.

Does the no x86 processor rule alow us to build a G3 calculator??

Your 'dialect' typing is starting to get annoying...

I'd settle for 20 MHZ and 32 MB FLASH ROM, no RAM.

It does support internal CD drives. You'd need to read the encoding on the disk, but hardware-wise and OS-wise, it would work. It supports USB FLASH memory sticks for the same reason.

MS-DOS modems can be used for networking (or TI-NAVIGATOR, TI's official network server system).

don't you kind of have to have RAM?

Not really-just a bank of JK flipflops for temp stuff, and the system settings are archived anyway on AMS 2.09 (desktop setings in idbck).

Wouldn't the JK flipflops act as RAM? And wouldn't it be cheaper just to use real RAM for RAM?

They would, but they would be smaller and lighter, and as they are used as temporary storage banks, RAM would not be more efficient. BTW, RAM is more expensive.

No, they wouldn't be RAM-RAM uses 1 or 2-transistor cells (I think) depending on whether it's SRAM or DRAM. RAM cells have different structures than JK flipflops.

if u want a backlight check out web page^^tritonlabs.com
my mom' cousin's son designed the afterburner(ne1 ever heard of it?) its an internal backlight for the GBA and could probably be modified for a calc...

The GBA SP already has a backlight. I wish I had one of those.

he made this a year or two before the SP, and tried to sell it to nitendo but they would have nothing to do with it and just made the SP instead.
its still cheaper to get a regular GBA and an afterburner though...

Yeah, I've heard of the after burner...I think what TI needs to make is a case that has a light light a book light...then you don't have to worry about the keys being lit up or whatever...

Sorry...light LIKE a book light