Survey posted 2003-04-05 01:22 by Henrik.

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TI rules! ...

"Consider the source, son!", Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate

Hmmm. would i be at this website if i didnt like TI calculators???

Yeah...

HP - nice but expensive. Casio - umm, no comment. TI - nice and affordable.

Go TI!!!! They don't know how to program, but they make good calculators.

The only things missing are sound and color (woohoo! A gameboy in disguise!) Even still, TI calcs leave HP and Casio in the dust.

Look in the Archieves. TIcalc has a sound progm.

Check out the link, evidence of TI calculator illiteracy. "when it is turned on there is nothing but a dark screen." Or in other words, they replaced the batteries and didnt change the contrast. now they sell it cause it is "broken"

also note that it's a TI-93 ....?????

The TI calcs are, by far, the best. in terms of features compared to price. 64K RAM and 5MB Archive/Flash memory accompanied with a 24mhz CPU would be sweet. 8 level greyscale and/or colour would also go down quite well.
This calc would not be financially viable for the company, but it would be pretty sweet nonetheless.
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Wow, what an idiot.

I should e-mail him and tell him how to fix it ;-) but I won't.

Now then... TI-93? How come I never heard of such a thing? *humph*

He/she misread "92" as "93"... They MUST be blind...

I'd e-mail him how to fix it ("Press <diamond> then <->"), but it looks like Morgan might be the high bidder... Hell, I might try to convince my parents to let me bid on it... That's a steal of a deal... Currently $46 with 22 hours left...

wow, it looks like the idiot should thank me, whe i posted it was only $20, and now ticalc.org people are pushing up the price. LOL

Don't bother, I already e-mailed him, and he's e-mailing me back if it worked. Then I'll bid.

You can hold up your calculator up to an AM radio at a blank station to hear sounds... but it's really hard. There are also headphones and stuff you can make to receive the sound. I don't know how good the quality has gotten yet, but at benryves' site, he has a program that's supposed to make Mr T. talk to you :) (with real sound) If I had a TI-83+, I'd definitely try that out.

[I WANT MY TI-89 BACK]

On the subject of sound from your TI, you can get an adaptor in a few ways:
1: Pick up a 1.5mm to 2.5mm adapter at Radio Shak or somplace similar, or
2: Build your own. Just jab your link cable and an old tape/cd player (anything with a headphone jack actually.) Then if you cut the link in half (it helps if you have two) and twist the red and white lines together (you don't have to if you have a stereo headphone adapter.) Connect the ground (copper wire) to one side and the red/white wires to the other. it does work, I've done it, but don't plug it in if you're on the home screen. It really slows down the processor.

I've always wondered why it slows down the processor?

It's because it hooks some of the wires together and it makes the calc think it's getting a link (maybe)I saw a good description somewhere, forget where... Can't find my Guidebook to check it...

That's cool... recently on here, I saw people were uploading songs... do they play the actual song, or is it just tones, like ABCDEFG?

The songs are probably more like MIDI's (In terms of what they [probably]sound like on the calc)

The only thing that I like about Casio Graphin Calculators is that they have 4-colored LCD screens (at least, the advanced ones do). Other than that, they are a cheap remake on TI (really, their OS's are incredibly sht00pid and user-UNfriendly)

The four color lcd is dull, if you try to make greyscale on one of the colors you get another completly diferent, the RAM memory sucks because they have 4 banks free and only use one, and assembly is dificult because the machine has a proprietary-chip of casio.
TI has the best prices, and they could do so much for us as giving us greyscale or rewriting the TI-83+ OS we could get a plus 300 KB of archive very easily, the memory RAM of TI-83+SE is much bigger I see no point in using only 24 KB, is about the same thing as buyng a 512 MB of RAM as upgrade and not using them.
HP has the best machines, this is due to their OS but they created an elite there are not very games, but there's nothing locked you can use greyscale and all you can remember even reprograming the OS is possible
TI-89 is the best handheld calculator, it is powerfull and light if it only had more archive free (bigger flash chip), and greyscale libraries on the OS, it would be perfect :P

And to think somebody would steal one from me...

Clearly, TI has the best calculators. I also agree that the TI-89 is the best... especially for math.

The HP-49g has an RS-232 serial port, so no adapters are needed to connect it to the computer (just wire it on through), and it uses Kermit and Xmodem, two common serial protocols, so almost no sspecial software is necessary. However, it does have a 4MHz processor, 1/3 that of the 89. Also, it is proprietary, but the OS has a BUILT-IN compiler AND assembler!!! This is a great feature. The 48 series is half as fast, but it has IR as well as wire, and the 48gx has support for expandable memory cards (Flash or RAM) which can also accomodate various I/O devices (somewhat like a CBL/CBR which is created by users for users that fits entirely into a socket on the back, also like my idea for a bus expansion on my 89 that I posted here a while ago).

Even better, on the 49g there is video output on all the calcs, so no special ViewScreen calc is needed. Sadly, I can't find the protocol anywhere on the web. Time to email support....

I've heard a lot about the HP-49g... is it the best HP model, just as the 89 is the best TI model?

Hp calcs have a slower processor, but because of more inteligent people writeing the OS they do most things faster than an 89.

Casio - cheap

Casio - horrible

My friends and I would call then "Crappios" in middle school.

LOL, that's funny :)

I was trying to play with one once... they make no sense... by the time you figure it out to use it for a long problem, you could have done the problem by hand.

[I want my TI-89 back]

hehe that sounds like a new cereal. But i guess TI's are the best. HP's are quite nice tho. And Casios are slow and inefficient like you know what.

You're supposed to insult them, not say no comment!

Sorry - Casios are crap!

And their programming is really bad... has anyone ever tried to make a program on those things? And the keys are SO in the wrong place.

I tried it once at OfficeMax. The language is HORRIBLE! The library is extrememly limited, the speed is slow, and the execution commands are just messed up.

good, good, the path to enlightenment you are folling young TI-Cares email attendant

Huh? I didn't quite catch that...


Has anybody made games for the Casios? I never really checked... I know people have made them for the HP calculators. Since they're so slow, would anyone want to make games for them? Do they have any ASM shells or programming tools?

If you look on Patrick Davidson(maker of Phoenix)'s website, there is Phoenix for one of the crappy Casio calculators(I can't remember the specific one).

Really? I'll have to go see :)

The only thing I used mine for (before I lost it and after it had no more use to me)was a hex/decimal/bin/oct converter and thats it