Re: A89: The future of 89/92+ Shells(AMS2.0,92+SDK)
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Re: A89: The future of 89/92+ Shells(AMS2.0,92+SDK)
True, but that student is a potential buyer of an application...
- Matt
Klaus Lukaschek wrote:
>
> But a student who don't even read his guidebook to explore the functions of
> his 83+calc, does not need a 83+SDK with complete asm-programming-support.
> Klaus Lukaschek
> slider_klaus@gmx.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Zeromus Mog <zeromusmog@home.com>
> To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:05 AM
> Subject: Re: A89: The future of 89/92+ Shells(AMS2.0,92+SDK)
>
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Airswit@aol.com>
> > To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 2:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: A89: The future of 89/92+ Shells(AMS2.0,92+SDK)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Why does TI always put all their focus on the TI-83? It isn't the
> > best
> > > calculator, or the cheapest, but they always come out with apps and new
> > > software for it first, even though the 89&92+ have been out twice as
> long.
> > >
> >
> > The TI-83 is their selling point. It's easy to use and costs $50 (I think)
> > less than those confusing TI-89s that boggle the mind of most math
> students.
> > (I once had to stand up in front of my class and explain how to program
> > Quadform on their 82/83 calculators. If you don't know already, you'd be
> > incredibly surprised at how stupid most students are when it comes to
> > getting their calculator to do anything.)
> >
> > Take the most ignorant, stupid newbie on this list, take away 90% of his
> > graphing-calculator intelligance, and you've got your average math student
> > with a TI82/83(+). I don't mean this as in insult- most of these people
> are
> > great at other things- but their calculator scares them to death. And the
> > math teachers aren't much better themselves. This is why TI sells so many
> > 83/83+ calculators and spends so much time doing TI83+ stuff. It's the
> > easiest to use calculator. I've let some long-time 82 users borrow my
> 85/86
> > for a while to do their math because their battery ran out or they forgot
> it
> > or something like that, and the thing makes no sense to them. They might
> be
> > able to do simple stuff OK, but every 5 minutes it's like "where's this"
> or
> > "where's that"? Hand them an 89 and they're completely lost. It makes no
> > sense to them.
> >
> > So TI sells a ton of 83+s. And that's where their focus is- you can tell
> by
> > looking at the Eighty-something newsletter. I saw it beacuse my old math
> > teacher got it and I looked at it every now and then. When the 83+ came
> out,
> > the teacher who wrote the headline article about it was more concerned
> about
> > whether or not they can press the exact same buttons to get the exact same
> > results than the cool new features. This Assembly-89 list is not a fair
> > represenation of the people who use graphing calculators- we are an elite
> > club of sorts. We get it. Most people don't.
> >
> > -Zero
> >
> >
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