Re: Why are TI Calcs so inferior? (fwd)
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As per below. I remeber last year at work, struggling with a HP Omnibook 500+ for
for a month to try to get it working with company and personnel software
and network connection. The unit was a 486/50 based portible IBM
clone about the size of a TI85. I compared the two next ot each other.
It has a 1/2 gig internal drive, 24megd of RAM, and had an external 3.5
floppy and
extrernal cd rom drive you could hook to it. Cute, but it had problems.
A) Low battery life - if you wanted to have more than 45min of battery
you had to move your programs to memory and turn off the hard drive.
B) It wasn't too portible with all the ext. drives.
C) IT NEVER FREAKING WORKED RIGHT! it we loaded all the specified
software, hooked it to the Company NW, and Ran more than to programs at
the same time it would crash! Ei it wasn;t acceptible as a work machine.
D) I look up the invoice, it was over $7500 !!!
jut my ramblings
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Charles Slaustas - Comp Sci
CBS@EAGLE.IBC.EDU
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:48:10 GMT
From: Goatboy <lcappite@SPRYNET.COM>
To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Why are TI Calcs so inferior?
I've received so many negative posts in the last 12 hours that I feel
I must clarify a couple things. I'm not trying to insult the calc or
the manufacturers. I just want to know why that these calculators are
not as powerful as they should be keeping in mind today's technology.
I'm perfectly happy with the calc (I just got the 85), and I love it
(makes algebra 2 a breeze). All the post was was a question. Plain and
simple. I had no intent to insult anyone or anything. It was just
something I was wondering about.
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