Re: Which TI should I buy?
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Re: Which TI should I buy?
I still fail to see the advantages of the 82. The 85's menu system is so
much better, it has a custom menu, and is much more powerful with higher
resolution. Why is the TI-82 better?
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Johnny "Big Dog" Miyares wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mr.Bean wrote:
>
> > For your information, it's really the OTHER WAY AROUND : the TI-85 was
> > made BEFORE the TI-82! The reason for that is that very few people were
> > buying the TI-85 so they made a slightly inferior model for the average
> > person.
> >
>
> I don't know if I would refer to the 82 as inferior, but those of us who
> had already been using the 81 as a teaching tool since '90(?) found the 85
> user unfriendly when it came out in '91/'92. Ideal for engineers, not so
> ideal for teaching high school.
>
> The 82 came out in the summer of '93 and was designed to fit primarily the
> needs of teachers who all went out and bought them in bulk for their
> classrooms. It may be less powerful than the 85, but in many ways, it has
> it's advantages.
>
> Enough of this.
>
> -- J. Big Dog
>
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