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Book of TI Discovered
Posted by Michael on 10 October 2005, 07:45 GMT

This evening Joey Gannon was out for a refreshing bicycle ride when a series of events profoundly changed his life. As he rounded a corner on a residential street, the front tire of the bicycle struck a Voyage 200 which had been left on the roadway two hours earlier. The resulting impact wobbled the wheel resulting in a catastrophic crash involving multiple flips and culminating with Joey landing head-first on top of a nearby armadillo. The armadillo escaped with only superficial scratches while Joey mustered all his strength to crawl over to the Voyage 200 to ascertain if it was damaged. Despite the throbbing headache and a newly discovered affinity for depitted olives, Joey was able to read the undamaged calculator's screen. What it contained will surely change the world forever.

The Voyage 200 displayed a file named "The Book of TI". Through corporate intervention and a few TI staff psychologists, Joey realized that he was staring at the Holy Book of TI containing universal calculator truth. As the Voyage 200's batteries were rather low, he frantically ran back towards his house for a gross of pencils and a ream of paper. Upon returning, the Book of TI was so enthralling that after reading the several-thousand page document, Joey only had time to copy the beginning few verses before the batteries died. What he gleamed is shared below:

1 SynThesIs

  1. In the beginning TI created the Educational and Productivity Solutions department.
  2. The marketplace was formless and void, and mathematical incoherentness was deep.
  3. Then TI said, "Let there be the TI-81"; and there was the TI-81.
  4. TI saw that the TI-81 was good; and TI separated the TI-81 from all other calculators.
  5. TI called the TI-81 a graphing calculator and the rest It called scientific or financial. And there were many evenings and morning, part of the product development cycle.
  6. Then TI said, "Let there a EOS and let it parse equations."
  7. TI made the EOS and separated the operations into their order of precedence, and it was so.
  8. TI called the EOS part of the homescreen. And there was a month in the product development cycle.
  9. Then TI said, "Let there be an equation editor, for entering equations, and let there be a graph screen for graphing the equations". And it was so.
  10. TI created the Matrix and the List, and these were good for storing data, so It created the real variable also.
  11. And TI saw that students were paying attention in their studies, so It created BASIC.
  12. After It had finished with Creation, TI rested while the Beta Testers examined Its creation.
  13. The Beta Testers found bugs, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  14. TI smote the Beta Testers for their insolence and rested. On the fourteenth day It fixed the bugs and proclaimed Creation to be complete.
  15. TI saw all that It had made and it was good.
2 The Distribution of the TI-81
  1. Thus the TI-81 was finished.
  2. TI blessed the end of the product development cycle and sent forth Its creation to populate the Earth.
  3. It said, "Let my creation be fruitful and multiply, for there are profits throughout the Earth."
  4. TI breathed life into the factories and they did run assembly lines and produce many TI-81s.
  5. The TI-81 did multiply according to TI's will and throughout the land teachers and students purchased them in mass quantities.
  6. TI was heartened by Its creation and its popularity and so caused a great command to fall upon the TI-81 development team. TI said to them, "You shall fashion for me a helper suitable to improve the product line."
  7. The product development team worked and from the case, ROM, and design of the TI-81 fashioned it a suitable assistant.
  8. The team said, "This calculator was created out of the TI-81 and is a derivative work of its ROM. It shall be called TI-85."
  9. And TI made this so.
  10. TI fired up the assembly plants and they made TI's new work fruitful even beyond that of the TI-81. It saw how good the TI-85 was compared to the TI-81.
  11. Both the TI-81 and the TI-85 were pure in body and thought and were not ashamed to be written in ASM.
3 The Fall of the TI-85
  1. Now the serpent was more crafty than any student in the field which TI had marketed to. And he looked at the TI-85 and said, "Indeed, has TI said, you shall not run assembly language?"
  2. The TI-85 replied, "BASIC we may run but from the Z80 machine code we shall not execute or else I will crash."
  3. The serpent was very intelligent and clever, and so said to the TI-85, "You surely will not crash by me!"
  4. The serpent revealed himself to be David Boozer and hacked the TI-85 via memory backups.
  5. The TI-85 did not resist for it was powerless in the hands of such a hacker serpent. It wailed and gnashed its keys.
  6. When David Boozer ran an assembly program the eyes of the TI-85 were opened and it knew that it always ran machine code in its OS.
  7. The TI-85 realized that David's ASM programs would not lead to crashes and so it opened its ROM and RAM structure to him.
  8. Having opened the eyes of the TI-85, David turned over his work to Dan Eble. Dan was a very skilled programmer and worked to further defile the TI-85.
  9. Out of Dan's efforts was born ZShell. ZShell opened the heart of the TI-85 to chaos and allowed all kinds of ASM to run.
  10. When TI saw what had happened, It cried "What have you done?" And it wailed and gnashed Its teeth.
  11. And nothing was said for TI knew what had been done. The TI-85 had sinned and its operation had been exposed to the most fundamental programming language.
  12. TI was angry but could not curse Dan Eble for his work. TI said instead to the TI-85, "You will always remain overpriced and poorly programmed. And ASM programs shall be unsupported on all calculators."
  13. But TI had no choice for market forces tempted even It. It fashioned offspring from the ROM and the case of the TI-85. Because of this, all calculators possess sin.
  14. TI created the...

After reading the entire Book of TI, Joey ran to the nearest electronics retailer and, carrying his backlit TI-86, planted himself squarely in the middle of the calculator aisle and authoratively proclaimed one of the 10 BASIC Command(ment)s: "Thou shalt have no calculators other than TI!" Having played one too many games of Whack-A-Mole over the years, Joey defended himself from HP heathens by slapping them left and right with the 86 as they approached. Several armed men in uniforms started to haul Joey away but could not silence his cries of "TI is coming! TI is coming!" At the present time, Joey is incarcerated in a maximum security prison in Alaska. Magnus, who spoke to him by long distance telephone call last weekend, informed us of his condition: "Joey is doing well I think. He's been pacing the cell quoting parts of the TI-89 manual from memory."

There is no word yet from the federal government as to when Joey will be eligible for parole. A mental competency hearing is scheduled for next Wednesday.

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Re: Book of TI Discovered
kevin roosa Account Info
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lol

Reply to this comment    10 October 2005, 20:51 GMT


The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
Antena Account Info

Damn think it was some kind of alien invation from hell. maybe it was some kind of destruction ... that left that book in our hand, we must discover what`s is going on here... maybe it is Code. in some weird Binary Code. The truth is out there !!! Oooo Nooo i hear Voices... Oooo Nooo.... Wait.. What`s that Shadow ? ...

Reply to this comment    10 October 2005, 22:05 GMT

Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
calkfreak83  Account Info
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How the crap can it be binary if its usin characters up to "z"..

Reply to this comment    10 October 2005, 22:24 GMT


Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
CajunLuke  Account Info
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36-anary recoded binary

Reply to this comment    10 October 2005, 23:20 GMT


Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
Anidn Ménoscwicz  Account Info
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next thing we know ti calc fanatics will be searching this document for kerys to the past and future, like folks do hebrew texts of the bible...

00101001001001 0010[10101111]01010010 0101011101101
SEE! I JUST PREDICTED SADDAM HUSSEIN'S DOWNFALL!!

Reply to this comment    12 October 2005, 22:17 GMT

Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
JcN  Account Info
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I don't understand why people actually BELIEVE that crap. You could do the same thing to ANY good-sized piece of literature and get the same results!

Reply to this comment    15 October 2005, 03:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
burntfuse  Account Info
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The people that say that kind of stuff go in the same category with the people who say that certain songs have hidden messages when you play them backwards. *rolls eyes*

Reply to this comment    15 October 2005, 17:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
anykey  Account Info
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You can't deny that they do. Lets face it, rockstars LOVE confusing desperate fans who listen to songs backwards. Does it actaully mean anything? No! Is it fun? Yes!

Reply to this comment    15 October 2005, 21:58 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
Jonathan Pezzino  Account Info
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Has anyone ever listened to that Pink Floyd song?

Reply to this comment    16 October 2005, 19:00 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
calkfreak83  Account Info
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I listened to Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven backwards and I still can't freakin find it..

Reply to this comment    17 October 2005, 03:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
calkfreak83  Account Info
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..the secret message, that is..

Reply to this comment    17 October 2005, 03:52 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
burntfuse  Account Info
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Same here. I once found a site where they supposedly played the message, and it was clear there (of course), but when I actually listened to my copy of Stairway to Heaven backwards, nothing like it turned up. Which just shows that the backwards message thing (at least in Stairway to Heaven) is fake.

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 20:17 GMT


Re: Re: The Voyage200 brought us this new prophesy
Jason Malinowski  Account Info

Although I'm afraid I won't be able to predict anything about me from this short part of the Book. This part doesn't have any J's in it...

Reply to this comment    15 October 2005, 15:29 GMT

Re: Book of TI Discovered
DWedit  Account Info
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Sorry, I'm a follower of the religion of Flying Link-Cable Monsterism. Touched by his 9600bps appendage!

Reply to this comment    11 October 2005, 02:52 GMT

Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
burntfuse  Account Info
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Oh yeah, what a great letter (about the flying spaghetti monster, that is)!!!

I guess I would be a devil then, since I program in assembly on my 86 and 83+.

Reply to this comment    11 October 2005, 18:42 GMT


Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
PeteyBoy Account Info

Be careful. Some guy named CajunLuke nearly died because of the link cable was chasing him and he didn't ran fast enough. But thankfully, the TI-84 SE blocked this link cable from killing CajunLuke and severed it's head off!

Reply to this comment    15 October 2005, 22:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
CajunLuke  Account Info
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I am not an "it", but I do thank the spirit of the 84+SE daily.

Reply to this comment    16 October 2005, 14:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
PeteyBoy Account Info

When I said "it" I meant the link cable.

Reply to this comment    16 October 2005, 16:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
CajunLuke  Account Info
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I see, now. Sorry for the misconstrueation

Reply to this comment    16 October 2005, 17:52 GMT

Re: Book of TI Discovered
JcN  Account Info
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Ha. Hahaha. Hehehe. And today only, a bonus "haha."

Nice!

Reply to this comment    11 October 2005, 05:44 GMT

Re: Book of TI Discovered
Snave2000  Account Info

Most Excellent! At all costs we must recover that V200 and see if the holy Book of TI still exists. We cannot allow this knowledge to die!!

The end of the world could be at hand. Gather ye TI graphing calcs close and pray for forgiveness from the lord TI!

Reply to this comment    11 October 2005, 15:14 GMT


Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
PeteyBoy Account Info

Wait, I just remembered. Casio stole the V200, read the holy book of TI, and mass produced evil calculators to run against the TI business! But these didn't just possess sin, cos, tan, but coc (cosecant), cot (cotagent), and various other trigonometric ratios (other forms of sin

Reply to this comment    16 October 2005, 11:09 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
PeteyBoy Account Info

OK, that didn't really make sense.

Reply to this comment    16 October 2005, 16:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
calkfreak83  Account Info
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cosecant is csc()..

Reply to this comment    17 October 2005, 03:54 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
Snave2000  Account Info

Yeah, come on, get it right...

Reply to this comment    17 October 2005, 15:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
PeteyBoy Account Info

I came up with cosecant at the top of my memory. Do you think I would have enough time to look it up in my calculator?

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 00:19 GMT

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calkfreak83  Account Info
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you should know it from trig.. sin, cos, tan, csc, sec, and cot.. :-P i could go into hyperbolic sin and all that but you get the idea..

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 02:20 GMT

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PeteyBoy Account Info

Well, I'm not in trigonometry yet. I'm still an 8th grader in Geometry.

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 21:48 GMT

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Snave2000  Account Info

Well, an early start on trig can't hurt you; you'll be using it for the rest of your academic life, at least. :-)

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 22:12 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info
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<older_brother_voice> Well, you'll have learned about all this trig stuff by the time you get into 11th grade like me... </older_brother_voice> *pats on head* (jk)

Reply to this comment    20 October 2005, 20:50 GMT


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PeteyBoy Account Info

Next year, in 9th grade, I'll take trigonometry with Algebra II.

Reply to this comment    29 October 2005, 09:59 GMT


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Sir_Robin  Account Info
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For that matter, it's sometimes written sin, cos, tg, sec, csc, ctg.

Reply to this comment    22 October 2005, 18:16 GMT


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Snave2000  Account Info

Um, how exactly would you have looked it up in your calc?

Actually, if you were running Symbolic, you could...<presses MATH twice and surveys resulting menu...>

And, I guess, you could have put a definition of it in a BASIC program and just had it display the abbreviation and regular spelling of each trig function...

And on I ramble....

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 15:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Book of TI Discovered
PeteyBoy Account Info

Yes, I do have Symbolic.

Reply to this comment    18 October 2005, 21:47 GMT

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