Re: BEST CALC 1997 !!!

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Re: BEST CALC 1997 !!!

what sort of palmtop?  I like the Newton MP2K, touchscreen, two slots,
161mhz, 1meg ram, good keyboard.  I'm just waiting for them to put it in
a case, like the eMate, for grown-ups. :-)

Seems like TI, or someone, should just build rom cartridges that take
advantage of palmtops.  Start with basic symbols and ops, "simple" things
like completing the square for quadratic, or using greek alphaebet like
is actually used.  then more cartridges for special applications,
calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, etc.  you buy what you
need.  main point would be that it should operate exactly like paper,
except you can choose to have it do some symbolic logic stuff, or do graphs.

I hear Windows CE doesn't even compare as an OS.


Jesse1S@hotmail.com

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:31:30 GMT, tdevries@nei.com (Tim DeVries)
> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:00:34 +0100, Ashwin Kumar Sharma
> ><Ashwin@tarantella.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>Vote for your best calculator ever:
> >>
> >>Isn't the TI-92 the best of the best?
> >>
> >>If you know of a better one then let me know?
> >>
> >>Also how do you program it-know of a good book?
> >>
> >>Cheers mateys
> >>--
> >>Ashwin Kumar Sharma
> >
> >The 92 is the most powerful, fastest, etc. calculator to my knowledge.
> >The only flaw it has is that it is apparently too powerful as many
> >colleges won't let you use it (classified as a laptop computer due to
> >qwerty keyboard).
>
> Actually, the TI-92 is classified as complete palmtop, eventhough it
> does not currently support any common operating system like dos or
> Windows CE. While it is sold as a 'calculator', it's actually a
> palmtop, as reflected in the price, in design (qwerty, very big
> display), and internally (a crystal for a clock.. you really don't see
> that in calculators.) Therefore, it is debatable whether you should
> call the 92 the 'best' calc.. a gameboy beats it at games, and a
> powerful palmtop running something like Maple would beat it at math.
>
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