Re: A89: Re: Help.... my TI-89 is now dead...
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Re: A89: Re: Help.... my TI-89 is now dead...
The TI-89 cost like $140 not $180. :) You are thinking of the TI-92 Plus.
What you say may be true, but now we have good emulators such as VTI, which
will soon support AMS 2.0x, and therefore programmers can make stuff for HW2
calcs without even owning it. VTI didn't exist when the TI-86 came out.
Bryan
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From: <TGaArdvark@aol.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Re: Help.... my TI-89 is now dead...
>
> > Of course, this is really the main downside of having a HW1 calc. And
it
> > will happen too. I mean, just look what happened to the TI-85, no one
> > programs for it anymore..
>
> Of course, when they came out with the 86, all of the
> competant asm programers went out and got one as
> soon as they saved/found/borrowed/stole/came into
> possession of a spare $120. And they did it again
> when the 89 came out two years later (except it was
> $180 that time). But not a single one of them bought
> yet another when the hardware revision came out. All
> of the dedicated asm programmers we have now have
> hw1 calcs. Of course, it is a matter of time before
> they all stop programming and enough new people
> gain the skills to replace them (toting their hw2 calcs),
> but that matter of time will be much larger than the
> changeoff from 85 to 86.
>
>
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