I've just noticed that CellSheet will be preloaded on the PLT, while a 92+ user has to pay for it. That isn't quite fair. After all, we had to pay more for our 92+ (because the link-cable) wasn't included)

Is that *really* your name? Good Lord, it's long.

Yes, that is *really* my name. But I'll use an nick in the future to make sure that you don't have to be jealous.

Heh... I want your name. I wouldn't be able to remember it all, though... meh.

Actually, I want my name to be Enrique Felipe Miguel Antonio Julio Juan Davíd Nabucodonosor Sanchez-Vicario de la Cruz, el tercer.

But it's just Michael Christian McElroy.

Take a look at the TI-83+ Silver. There are like 7 Apps that you normally have to pay for to get for the 83+ that come free with the Silver.

Thats because TI recognizes that thier apps really are worthless, and that no one in there right mind would pay seperately for them.

You're probably right.

Okay, first of all they're not free, the customer PAYS for them with the calc. New concept eh?

Lets hope that this means that TI will release more, hopefully useful, apps for the 89/92+. With 2 MB space for apps, its going to take quite a bit to fill.

BTW, this calc is going to suck. It isn't going to be allowed on any standardized tests, just like the 92+. Why not make an 89 Gold Edition?

Sounds good to me. I always thought that the 89 was the most promising calculator TI ever made. It has amazing capabilities for FAST assembly/C programs, built-in CAS, large archive and RAM, and powerful grayscale capabilities. If they released a new version with a faster processor, more space, a built-in clock, and some added programming features (e.g. expandable on-board ASM/C compiler FLASH app, or BASIC file system commands), I would be one of the first to buy it.

What I don't understand is this, how can you expect an AMS update to add a clock feature? Don't you need new hardware for that? (Or at least a tweak in the present hardware)

For what I know, there is a smal change in the hardware, yes.

According to people who have looked at the chips used in the calculators, on Hardware Version 2.00, there is already a hardware clock, it just was not used by AMS.

On Hardware Version 1, there is no hardware clock, and in fact, according to TI-CAS, the AMS upgrade will NOT have the clock feature enabled on HW1.

When looking at TI's discontinued page I found these things: TI-74 TI-95 and TI-99...

No description, TI must be hiding something....

The TI-95 and TI-99 are normal calculators. Just like the TI-93. No graphing, no CAS, no nothing. Add, subtract, multiply, divided, percent, exponent, and a few other buttons.

I don't know about the TI-74.

I never get tired of this question. I just traded in my ti 95 after 16 years for a voyage 200. This was an 8" x 4" x 1" calculator which came out right before the first graphing calc in '86. For it's time it was the top of the line. 8k memory with expansion cartridges that were either applications or extra ram.
It had a very easy keystroke programable language and the ability to assemble programs when you were finished programing them. I wrote a simple loop program and found that even though the 95 only had a 750khz processor, it was about half as fast as the same loop programed in voyage 200 basic. The other thing I really liked about it was that you could redefine the function keys so they operated like any other button with your label right above it (function keys are laid out like the voyage 200) which I think is still difficult to do in the newer calc's. It seems that the 9x series was for qwerty keyboards used by professionals thus the "TI 95 Procalc".

The Ti 74 looked a lot like the 95 but ran programs in basic with a little bit of scientific calculator functionality. It came out around '86. This was the "TI 74 Basicalc".

The TI 99 was a home computer. Many of my friends had one. It was really one of the first 16 bit computers and had a very low baud modem (~200 baud) in witch you placed your phone reciever (they were all Bell Phones at the time!) to the modem and the transmission was done with audio! It was a nice computer that connected to your television.

My computer at the time was a timex sinclair 1000 (the first computer under $100). With a Z80 processor, 2k of ram(expandable to 16) and had a black and white output to the telivision. The keyboard was a film type and the resoloution was horrible (Less than 100x100). It was approximatly the same size as the voyage 200.

I am glad to awnser any "old" computer questions.

Joel

I wish that they kept the TI legacy intact and called this new contraption the TI-92+ Blue Edition......after all there is almost no difference between this and the TI-92+.....except the clock and a few other features...I wonder if BASIC programming on the voyage 200 will have more features on it and allow more control over the calculator than BASIC did in the past....I am not too assembly inclined

If the TI Voyage 200 is just basically the TI 92+ do you think there is away to upgrade the flash rom memory in the TI 92+ to meet that of the TI Voyage 200?

Some of you guys don't understand this so I'll explain.

Power-Yes, the Voyage 200 does run on AAA's but under REGULAR usage, it lasts at least 4 months, or at least mine has. Quit whining and by Ni-MH. TI uses AAA's so that the calcs are smaller and fit in your pocket (Yes Voyage 200 does fit into your pocket).
Don't worry, it uses a clock battery for the clock function.

sorry.... i didn't have time to read the specs... does it have a 68k processor and is it compatable with 89/92+ games? (with some changes with user input)