Wow that thing's cool! That chip probably could even decode mp3's from SD cards!...and to think my 84 can hold the equivalent of an outdated floppy disk...

-You must haven't heard of "MSD8X?" My 84+ has about 2GB of archive, but my ram takes a hit per program I put on it, so I rely on trying to recode it for 89 Titanium.
-That calc looks like you have to use a menu for every funcition, or is that thing touch screen? Either way, it isn't very practical if you have to access a menu for every time you want to do a "Solve(*)" funtion.
-Oh yeah, why is it neccessary to have the "3rd post" debate?! I am the 15th, and I don't feel any special!

I've heard of it but never tried it cause I don't have the cable....maybe I could build one out of old computer parts...eh, if there are any applications/programs that will read native formats on it I might buy the cable

Get this <link> -- it will work for any device to any device.

http://www.radioshack.com
/product/index.jsp
?productId=2111061

Thats uber 1337!!! I would pay my nspire fund for that thing!

What I'm suprised about is the fact that the ticalc staff has *NOT* mysteriously disappeared.

802.11? Brandon's working on a USB driver for wireless on the 84+...

Are you serious?? 802.11 is what my school uses! Oh my gosh! The age of calculators has come...

Looks like TI and HP had a bit of a competition (again)... and it was a competition with vaporware...

However, this device (and the HP one, as well) IS kinda pointless. If it's meant for educational use, then it would have been too expensive for the intended market, especially seeing as they'd have had to buy at least an 83+ for tests (well, OK, they could have gotten a TI-30 for most stuff, but TI's intentionally forced graphers on people.)

If it's meant for engineering use, engineers nowadays don't want giant powerful calculators, they want a tiny little scientific that fits in their pocket, because they have desktops and laptops running Matlab and the like that can blow away any device like this.

So was this before or after the Nspire idea?

And again, why not (since this a prototype) add a color screen and sound? They could then call it "The TI-PSP for Nerds".

I'd buy it.

I think that would be a oversized Palm Pillot then.

Why not just write AMS or an emulator for PalmOS?

Wow... that calc is a work of art. I like the SD slot. This surely puts the TI Nspire to shame.

Indeed; I second that!

I third it.

I forward it. (Four'd it, get it?)

hI five it.

This obviously has the specs to run Linux, So I ask, Is there anyway to run a distro of Linux on a voyage or 89?

I've never seen why not. the m68k is supported by the linux kernel, and though the memory and storage aren't anywhere where they would need to be for a modern distro, older versions of unix have run on lesser machines.

You might also want to take a quick look at PedrOS

MC68000 is not supported by Linux due to a lack of MMU but earlier version of this processor (MC680x0) are.

But, m68k is supported by uCLinux.

I would say that about DOS but I think any command-line environment would be rather hard to use lacking a qwerty board.

It depends...you could use a really, really, REALLY stripped-down version of Xorg (or just do some custom gfx with the framebuffer).

And the point? I guess it would be good for bragging rights...

For me, getting a Linux kernel running on a calculator would just be something to satisfy my inner hacker. Besides, it would be fun to test bash scripts or run python on something I could stick in my pocket.

Hmm there is a BSD like system for the TI89 anywhere. The developer doesn't work any longer on it but it is there. He ported everything (Multitasking too) and it boots on a calculator and mount the filesystem.
Unfortunately is the sourcecode not published. :(.

I want the GNU/Hurd for the Voyage 200.

mfg Gva

Sorry the name of it is Punix.
If someone know the developer of this or can reach him, beg him to release the sourcecode please.

Ohh sorry again the sourcecode is free.
If someone want to continue the work on it, I would be very interested.

See here for the latest about Punix:
http://p080.ezboard.com/ ftichessteamhqfrm5.showMessage? topicID=3322.topic
(remove the spaces).

The source is available here (web link).
http://www.ti-news.net/
project_viewfile.php?id=00000106
PS:This is my first post.