That looks so cool! w00t!!! (4th comment) COOOOOLL!

GAU BUY!!!
GAU HAPPY!

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Oauu...

Edgar used "Dried Meat"
[Gau recovers 150 HP]
Did you notice that he uses every conceivable way to spell "Oauu" in various places in the game?

As for the 'Voyage 200,' I think it is basically a 92+SE, but without the faster processor or the new features. It has no real reason to exist as far as I can tell. However, if it is more like the 83SE than TI is letting on (the extra RAM, all that extra stuff no one has figured out, etc.) then it might be worth a second look.

I think most of that extra ram is pretty useless for me to ever need. since they only give a little more for regular files. it really stinks how they limited 1.7M of the rom to APPS only... (since i dont ever use apps, because i dont see any useful ones for any of my classes)

only possible reason id want it is if its thinner, smaller and not so heavy as the 'original' 92+...

otherwise, im more then happy with my 'original' 92+

You good dancing partner...

>>4th comment

you must feel very special

Hey, 5th post :o)

Ummm... I think that this thing is just another more expensive calculator. They are turning in to cheap rip-off Palms.

Sorry TI, I dissaprove greatly,
Null

...until you get one ;-)

:o)

Even if I did ever buy one (very unlikely) I would never desert my good ol' 86

I actually did my homework tonight,
Null

I didn't. I didn't have school today due to heavy snowfall! W00T!!!!!!

what's with the W00T anyway?

It's just fun to say.

wOOt!

actually w00t comes from starcraft. i can't reme,ber the exact race but one of them makes the sound effect.

LEAD US FOR THE SWARM!!!

Run, run
or you'll be well done...

SCV GOOD TO GO SIR!

Gimme somethin' to shoot.
Need a light?
THOUGHTS IN CHAOS!!!
etc.

You old starcraft nuts ;)

Wonder if we're allowed to buy it without the graphlink included for a lesser price...probably not.

hey not counting posts
thats pretty beast its the euphamisms that piss me of.....personal learing device...its a 92 with soem bells and whistles

For those of you to lazy to click on the link, here's the specs:

Bid Specifications for Voyage 200
*Modern and ergonomic design.
*Intuitive icon desktop for easy navigation and organization of Handheld Software Applications (Apps).
*Built-in clock to keep track of time and date and to use for timing experiments.
*Full QWERTY keyboard, numeric keypad.
*128 x 240 pixel display.
*About 188K bytes of user-available RAM.
*About 2.7 MB of user-available FLASH ROM (3x the FLASH ROM memory of the TI-92 Plus).*
*Electronic upgradability of software including maintenance and feature upgrades.
*Advanced Mathematics Software functionality suitable for college mathematics and engineering coursework.
*Pretty Print shows equations and results with radical notation, stacked fractions, and superscript exponents.
*Active Calculator Home history screen can hold up to 99 previous entries for deep recall.
*Interactive geometry applications for Euclidean, transformational, and analytic geometry explorations (based on Cabri Geometry II).
*Real and complex numeric results.
*Symbolic manipulation for algebra, calculus and differential equations.
*Symbolic units for use in equations, computations, and unit conversions. Over 100 units in 28 unit categories. 20 constants with symbolic units.
Graphs functions, parametric and polar equations, recursively-defined sequences, 3-dimensional surfaces, and differential equations. Up to 99 graphing equations defined and saved for each graphing mode.
Numeric evaluation of functions in tables and data variable format.
*Interactive analysis of function values, roots, maximums, minimums, integrals, derivatives, intersections, inflection points, and arc lengths.
Recursively-defined sequences access any number of previous terms.
*Slope and direction fields for exploring differential equations. RK and Euler numeric differential equation solving methods.
*Real time rotation of 3D surfaces.
*List-based one- and two-variable statistical analysis, including eight regression models.
*Statistics plots including scatter, xy-line, box and modified box plots. Histograms and regression lines.
*Matrix operations including inverse, determinant, transpose, augment, elementary row operations, and reduced row echelon form. Matrix elements can be real or complex and numeric or symbolic.
*Advanced matrix operations including eigenvalues, eigenvectors, LU and QR decompositions.
*Column-logic expressions in data/matrix editor are retained for automatic recalculation when values change.
*Interactive numeric equation solver.
*Hexadecimal and binary operations and conversions.
*Extensive programming capability with number and size of programs limited only by available memory. User-definable functions extend built-in functionality.
*Optional assembly language programming.
*Command catalog screen to access and show "help" information for each function and command.
*Memory management to create folders for specific applications or subjects.
*255 symbols in the character set including Greek, system, and international characters.
*Compatible with Calculator-Based Laboratory™ (CBL2™) and Calculator-Based Ranger™ (CBR™) Systems to allow analysis of real-world data.
*Link capabilities for data transfer through I/O port. USB and unit-to-unit link cables included.
*ViewScreen™ overhead port.
*Powered by 4 AAA batteries with lithium battery backup to protect memory during main battery change.
*One-year limited warranty.

Toll-free help hot-line
e-mail help line: ti-cares@ti.com.

Volume Purchase Program.
*Activity Books.
*Workshop Loan Program – borrow calculators for evaluation of workshops.
*Printed Getting Started Guide included, full Guidebook available on Resource CD.

Pre-installed applications
*Cabri Geometry™
*CellSheet™
*Finance
*The Geometer's Sketchpad&#reg;
*Polynomial Root Finder
*Simultaneous Equation Solver
*Statistics with List Editor
*StudyCards
*Language Localization (French, German and Spanish)

*All 2.7 MB can be used for Flash Apps, but only 1 MB of it can be used for data archive.

Hehe I read that too from the site.

> Workshop Loan Program – borrow calculators for evaluation of workshops.

What does that mean?

It means you can borrow a calculator for the sole purpose of completing a "workshop" (activity, worksheets, etc.)

Borrow from whom?

I assume it would be borrowed from TI.

Specifically, it means teacher workshops. A program where teachers get to do things with TI calculators for a day and then buy them.
<Rant>
This is just another way that TI is trying to get our schools to require the inferior calculators, and yes, I do mean require. My calculus class supplies list (yeah, we still do that) explicitly stated that a handheld TI graphing product was needed for the class, and the teacher recommended the 83 or 83+.
I am one of ~20 people in my school who has an 86, and we cannot understand why schools keep using the TI 80, 81, or 82 calculators. They did recently get ~230 new 83+ calcs, though (a new state test that requires calculators is going into effect, and we have a freshman class of ~650).
Each of the calcs came with a cable and a manual, so TI just had a small patch of forest obliterated for things people throw away anyway. How much sense does that make?
</Rant>

You should be happy to even be allowed to have graphing calcs...

I'm forbidden to use calc's higher than TI-106 at tests, but hey, who goes to the tests???

GAHH! I hate this. TI like to make their calculators rom heavy, and not enough ram.
The TI-83 had 27 k ram.
TI-83+ has 19k ram.
this trend must stop.
188 sounds like a lot, but 500k would have been better, maybe up to 1 meg ram, 2 meg rom.
19 k ram and 1.7 meg rom is way too much rom for the amount of ram.
On my 83, I am running out of memory way too often. They need more memory, not this horrible rom.

About this too much ROM and too little RAM thing...

The Calc's ROM is like a computers Hard Disk. Information is designed to be static and not as volatile and dynamic as RAM. That is why your Flash ROM does not get erased if your batteries fail or your calc crashes. A typical new computer has 256Mb of RAM compared with around 60 000Mb Hard Disk space. In other words, the ratio of dynamic memory to static memory (in a 83+) is 20 times greater than a typical new computer.

Obviously, it is very logical to have 14K RAM and 160K ROM (in 83+)

On a side note, the people at ticalc.org should reliaze that a persons main platform could be Windows XP, not just Win98, 200, NT.