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Voyage 400 Leaked
Posted by Michael on 1 April 2003, 05:57 GMT
 Update: Please note that this was a joke. Please do not contact Texas Instruments or any of their resellers asking about this product - it does not exist.
TI is developing a new calculator, the Voyage 400. Leaked specifications and photos from TI have been floating around since Saturday. It appears to follow the tacky case colors of the existing calculators, but what really matters is that it has a 256-color LCD! It also features a 66 MHz ARM processor (presumably with 68k emulation?), 16 MB of flash, and an IR port with a "teacher select" to disable for testing. The scheduled release date is in August. Unfortunately I don't think there is sound, but this definitely is a nerd's dream. Update (Henrik): New information received from an anonymous source indicates that there is no sound output, but there is a link port that could possibly emulate sound output, like we have seen on other calcs. Further, there is an emulation layer so that Flash applications compiled for the Voyage 200 will be able to run unmodified. We will disclose further information as we get it. Update (Michael): ph33r my 31337 9R@pHIC5 5kilL5! Update: Again, please don't contact Texas Instruments regarding this non-existing calculator.
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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lord_nightrose 
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Yeah, I think it's real. Kerm says he saw Voyage 200 above the LCD in the picture, but now that I've magnified it myself I can't pick it out... I can definitely see 'voyage' but the number is blurred.
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2 April 2003, 02:59 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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RCTParRoThEaD_
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haha goto the DS site.
Also, if this image were being hosted off of IT's site, then i'd believe this. But since it's in the extra folder, I think it's a crock of shiznat.
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2 April 2003, 03:55 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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klaser javasin
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You could have faked the lcd better.
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2 April 2003, 05:20 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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Beta
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My math teacher recently mentioned news of a new TI calc with specs almost identical to this one - I thought he was kidding until I saw this post. Don't know where he heard it from, but he mentioned everything from the color screen to the huge memory to the IR link
I don't think this is a joke; if not, ticalc.org should have timed this better :)
Cheers to the first person with a "teacher select" hack!!! ;)
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2 April 2003, 06:55 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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Jack Lau
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I told you it could be an April Fool!
Anyway a cooler "calculator" that you could have is a laptop PC running Windows 2000 or XP Pro with Texas Intruments Derive 5 software and even Matlab!
Derive 5 is a maths package just like what you get with the TI-89 and TI-92 series.
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2 April 2003, 19:12 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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q x
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'twould be nice to have something like this, and for TI to come out w/ a color screen calc.!
-Ooh-well.
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2 April 2003, 23:23 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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chemoautotroph
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>>ph33r my 31337 9R@pHIC5 5kilL5!
That fake graphic was horrible, it was the first giveaway that this was fake news, even before I realized it was April 1.
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4 April 2003, 14:41 GMT
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Something that would have made it much more credible...
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Drantin
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...would have been a background that appeared to be on some alpha testers desk...
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4 April 2003, 16:36 GMT
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Re: Voyage 400 Leaked
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taydawg2003
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it would be nice to have a calculator like that.
if this was real it would probably cost $350.
It needs infrared link and sound built in, with the addition to recieve from every model of ti and other calculators as well...
...and it needs to be able to make drinks!
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5 April 2003, 02:24 GMT
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