Re: Question about TI-83+


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Re: Question about TI-83+



>I, however, have one beef with this - NO stores in my area STOCK the
>GraphLink.  None.  Not Fry's Electronics, not Best Buy, not Circuit City.
>Not one.

Not many retail stores carry them because there isn't that much of a demand,
or at least there didn't used to be.  So you have to mail-order one instead.
 Big deal.

>Besides, they honestly don't need to charge $30 for them anyway.
>I built one that works just as well for $5.  I imagine they can cut the
>price to $20 or $15 and make better profits.

How would you know what it costs them to make a Link?  TI's Graph Link has a
circuit inside to make it compatible with PCs and Macs.  They also have to
pay people to engineer this thing and then support it later with the link
software.  The $5 link you made is a low-quality hack job that is little
more than two wires stuck in the proper connectors.  Sure it still works,
but it's a Yugo where TI's Graph Link is a Ford or something.

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