How can I use the ClockOn and the ClockOff function?? What about the setmzn() and the setzn()?? Is there any use for them??

I don't know about setzn()... in fact, that's not a function... but settmzn() could be used to run a program that operates based on some specific time parameter... settmzn() sets the time zone as oriented to GMT... for example, Eastern Standard Time is GMT -5:00.

ClockOn and ClockOff turn the clock on and off, presumably to save power and processor cycles... but 4 lines of ASM code per second wouldn't affect either *too* drastically. You have to realize that with something like a calculator, the processors will be relatively slow even if they're overclocked. They're not designed to be fast, after all; just to do lots of simple, and some complex, math problems.



On another note, I came up with an idea... how about a distributed computing project based on TI calculators? we could write a client app that calculated hatever we wanted to, and a computer app that would retrieve the data from the calculator and sent it to a server somewhere... anybody up for thinking of something to compute? I'm sure that we'd have a surprising amount of computing power to spare with all these calculators... as long as the processor isn't busy playing games :-p

Ok,I try to get the clock to work but its still blocked out on my menu,i set the time and date, and used CLockOn, now what, TI hasnt given any reports on how to use the new shit..

I know. I had some questions to ask and they wouldn't send me a reply yet either. But if you have a Hardware 1 that will cause the clock function to be bocked out.

I found a link on how to use all the new stuff in AMS 2.08

You can view the online guidebook for the TI89/Voyage 200 for this information at (Click "Web Page" Next to my name) and check under the Apps Desktop section.

on the home screen, press F1 -> alpha+A.
Does it say "Hardware version 1.00"? If so, then you have the 'outdated' TI-89 hardware model, which doesn't contain the crystal that the clock uses to check time. If you have HW1, you CANNOT use the clock, no matter what you do.

I thought of the same thing yesterday. Whenever you wanted to do a 3d graph, maybe...?
Wireless network @ school, with chat, dist. comp., filesharing, email, etc. wouldn't be too hard to do.

Well...I think I tried asking this earlier but my post got spammed,I just bought my 89 about 3 monthes ago,So I don't know if its hw1 or 2

3 months ago?
I'm 99.99% sure its HW2

Press F1 in the HOME - SCREEN and A. After that a dialog box appears. There you can see the Hardware Version in the 4th line.

| followed your instructions, but I din't recognize my TI89 HW version. All I see is this:
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ABOUT
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TI-89
Advanced Mathematics Software
Version 2.05, 07/05/2000
Product ID: 03-1-9-4C
ID #..... ..... ....
Cert. Rev. # 2

Copyright c 2000 Texas Instruments.
All rights reserved.
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I tried AMS 2.08, but clock functions didn't work and many programs too, so I went back to great 2.05. Is anybody able to tell me from the menu About (above:), which HW version I have?

You have HW1.

I loaded 2.08 on HW2...and it would NOT send ANY ASM programs to my calc...and NO flash software would be sent. BASIC was OK. What's the deal here?

Go back to v2.05

It worked fine for me... maybe your calc is on crack.

TI appears to have changes a bunch of links. the new location for the page with AMS 2.08 is the link above my post.

If anybody reads down this far, TI has fixed the "clack functionality" part of that page. Either TI is reading ticalc.org's news posts or it's just an amazing coincidene.

I expect it'll be called the "clack" for years to come. :)

Nice you noticed! I was about to mention that. Thanks for mentioning it for me, now I don't have to. :)

I thought of this today... We are all used to write SMS messages in mobile phones and tipically we write it very fast so why don't develop a program that enables us to write just like in a regular cell phone. Press #1 1 time for a, twice #1 for b and so on and so on... You can even create a dictionary and use auto-complete for the most typed words... I dont know if anyone had this idea before and if I had spare time I would try to make this application. Anyone interested? Why do we need that ascii keyboard that TI is going to release for the 89? For nothing I believe! :)

Hae you ever see a mobile phone with T9 funtion? very nice!!! take a look at www.t9.com
ciao

tiras

my phone is like that, but it was around before T9 decided to claim they invented it. I've had my phone since 2000... they said T9 technology came out LAST year... LIES!