Re: Which TI should I buy?
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Re: Which TI should I buy?
well, I personally wish i had an 82 AND an 85 AND a 92.
all of them have their advantages.
Bhuvanesh Bhatt.
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Adam Trilling wrote:
> The 85 is MUCH more powerful, but the 82 is easier to use and cheaper. I
> paid $25 less for my 82 than I would have paid for an 85, but I still
> wish I got an 85.
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, P. Kolbus wrote:
>
> > Not to start a Mac/PC war here, but the 82 'is better than' the 85 for the
> > same reasons that the Mac 'is better than' the PC. It's easier to use!
> > (albeit MUCH less powerful, IMHO - thats why I have an 85)
> >
> > At 20:51 12/11/96 -0600, Phillip D. Teeple wrote:
> > >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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