Whatever happened to the TI-Files anyway?

I'm not sure, but I think they got purchased by somebody (go figure, purchasing a free site) and some new site's gonna come up or something.

Out of all my friends, only one of them used to use the TI-files on a regular basis. their files were badly arranged and their archives were not very complete. The last time I saw them was when Nick D. pulled off his gag where there was a picture of the atomic bomb explosion and a text that said that he had taken over.

Dwah?!

When did I do that?

-n.

For shame! Shame!

*slaps Nick on the wrist*

Yeah, they claimed to have the biggest archive but they didn't and they had 10 copies of every program.

When was that? It's not in the news archives, and I can't find that picture.

However, click the link above. ;-)

Hey, that's a useful image :) it's for out team info page at distributed.net :).

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Phil

Hey...that was MY idea! It could actually be done, although you'd want to build an AC adapter for your calculator, and override the auto-shutdown routine, and find a way to have it automatically upload/download packets to and from your PC, and... bah! Forget it.

Has anybody else noticed that calc.org has expanded to the hp series. But I doubt that any self respecting hp programmer would upload to calc.org.

Yup, noticed that one. That went into the news item I posted on my site, too. I doubt that calc.org will ever really compete with hpcalc.org for any HP stuff, but at least it's a good gesture on calc.org's part towards HP users.

Now the real question remains..

Will calc.org support all three major graphic calculators by supporting the Casios in time?

Although I really like some of the Casio calcs (I own a CFX-9850g and learned how to program a lot of stuff in BASIC), the major hinderance I found was the huge expense of the computer link cables for it. The link software is free, but the cable costs somewhere around $50, or probably much more. The card I got with my calc quoted a $99(!!!) price for the cable. The general lack of popularity of the Casio calcs will probably also keep them off sites like calc.org. Remember, both the HPs and TIs can be programmed in assembly language, have relatively cheap link cables available, and have a lot of support in general from a lot of users. No other calcs have that. About the only thing that my Casio has an advantage in is statistics and sometimes speed of calculation.

A few people have suggested this, some joking, others quite serious. It is our goal to support major graphing calculators. When we decided this, we considered the "major" graphing calculators to be from TI and HP. But it is not out of the question - if there is a demand for such support, we will look into it.

Actually, although I do not own an HP calc (yet), I believe that this is a good thing. I mean, their domain _is_ calc.org. The domain does not specify what type or brand of calc they cover. To conclude, there is nothing wrong with them venturing out into HP territory, and if brings them a greater user base.

The site name was probably changed because of that letter they got from ti.

And I am not saying that there is anything wrong with having hp files. Most HP users would view calc.org as a kiddie site.

Anyways, calc.org is trying to go up against hpcalc.org the established and respected hp archive site and if history shows us anything, like when they tried to go against ticalc.org for archives they will loose.

Ticalc had about a year head start on calc.org, runs the assembly mailing lists, and the staff members were directly involved with the developement of zshell and fargo -the origional assembly platforms.

hpcalc has been around since 1997 so they have a four year head start on calc.org

Umm, ticalc.org started in April of 1997.
Check Web Server Statistics under the About section.
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Phil

Umm, Umm, Actually we started June 21, 1996. We just only kept stats since April 1997...

why not look at the copywrite at the bottom of the page?

Hpcalc.org is nothing as complete as ticalc or calc.org. They merely have file archives and sell their archive CD. That's all they actually do. They don't support programming contests, supportive hardware or any of the stuff that the top two TI fan sites offer.

Top *TWO*? Since when? calc.org just went kaput [dgi db went dead?], and ti-files hasn't existed for as long as I can remember. ticalc.org seems to be dominating the entire TI scene!!!

Maybe it's because they're the only ones that still update and manage their site...

:-)

Hpcalc.org is nothing as complete as ticalc or calc.org. They merely have file archives and sell their archive CD. That's all they actually do. They don't support programming contests, supportive hardware or any of the stuff that the top two TI fan sites offer.

I'll bet that that section of their site will die eventualy. Most HP users are engineers or in college (barring a few freaks like me) and most TI users are in high school (calc.org's primary users). Plus, nobody wants to take the time to learn RPN or RPL.

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