Survey posted 2005-06-30 03:43 by Jon.

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Where's the "I have a job that doesn't need my calculator, am not taking summer classes, but use my calculator anyway" option?????

Where it says :I dont have a job, I am not taking classes BUT I still use my calculator.

Except he has a job.

does not have a job

That's my predicament as well...I work at a gas station (no calculator required), I'm not taking any classes, but I still use my calculator at home occasionally

I do not have a job! I am only going into 7th grade.

First of all, I don't think he meant you. Second of all, I'm impressed someone as young as you is on this site. ;) I'm going into high school next year, and skipped 7th grade, so I won't have a job for a while. Anyways, I'm mostly programming programs such as PowerBASIC and a "MirageOS Password Hacker" and complaining about the slow upload process in my spare time. I pretty much take my own "summer classes" in that I be studying for next year, but I probably spend 2-4 hrs on my TI-83+SE Every Day. :P

MirageOS hacker isn't that hard...if 2nd mem isn't disabled, just go there and delete and MirageOS appvars. If it is disabled, then open up MirageOS, take off the batteries, and then MirageOS's password protect should be disabled.

actually you can disable the mem lock by entering MIRAGE and pulling a battery. from there, go straight to the mem and delete the MIRAGE appvar. but it involves a RAM clear :)

Wouldn't that mean you are only one year older or the same age? How could you be impressed that someone as young as he is is on the site?

Well, Im going into 8th grade, and got on here at ~ 6th. Yet, I am no "n00b". I have done a lot with the calc scene including programming in ASM, C and being the #5 talker on #calcgames!

I'm pretty sure I was here in the seventh grade. I had an 83+ before everyone else in my grade 'cause I skiped a year of math. Not that I ever post or upload. Just lurk. I'm about to skip 11th and 12th grade. See link. Heh.

wow you're amazing! im 11th grade already!

You people are making me feel old (I am starting college in the fall). :) At any rate, I got my TI-86 (my first graphing calculator) when I was in eighth grade (I think). At least, it says (C)1996, so it cannot have been before sixth grade.

That makes me feel even older then... I just completed my freshman year of college.

Man, I must be the geezer of the bunch- I am going to be a junior in college and I am actually done with math.

I do have statistics and engineering classes that require a stout calculator, so that's why I haven't sold my V200 for rent money yet. You 13-year-olds here will learn about rent, insurance, and gas soon enough...

I have taken 6 semesters of college and am beginning to take unnecessary math classes just to keep a little variety in my course schedule...I'm only Sophomore in college age though...I started going to a community college as a Junior in high school...being homeschooled, my mom couldn't keep up with me ;)

BTW...I just turned 19...how old are you?

Since high school is when most people start geting their licence to drive, mainly around around 10th and 11th grade. Who has their licence and a car that they can drive? I can drive but I don't have a car quite yet. My dream car is a Chevrolet Corvette. Whats your dream car??

P.S. Link to see the Chevrolet Corvette
http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette/

Prius

I concur. A green one.

How about taking the train?

New Orleans doesn't get train service: Amtrak only stops here once per month, and only at one place.

...or a bus?

I'm kinda the opposite, I have a car, but not a license to drive

Huh, that's a sort of unusual situation... The car's really yours?

My dream car iis powered by a ti-89 titanium. unfortunatly it was just a dream.

I would rather have it powered by a TI-92+ or V200 so I could enter stuff slightly more rapidly. :)

One that's paid for and has inexpensive insurance ;)

I've got a license and a 1990 Lincoln Town car...not the most spectacular car in the world, but it's comfortable and reliable, and for 19, my insurance isn't TOO bad...$150/mo My dream car (keeping within realistic bounds) is an RX8. I did a report on the rotary engine in those...so hot. Want to touch the pedals.

your point is... I am going into 7th grade and thats it (not for my education i dont mean it that way)

thats ok, i've been using this site since i was in 6th grade, and I'm in 8th now, so your not alone

Since we are all on the topic of grades, I will be entering 10th grade next year. I remember in seventh grade that when I first learned we were going to have to pay over $100 for a calculator I thought, "over my dead body". I currently own an 83+ and an 84+ and am looking to buy an 89platinum.
I guess im in heaven.
By the way how much faster are 68K calcs that a Z80 running at 15Mhz.

As far as I know, the 68K processor is more efficient (fewer cycles per instruction on average), & it is 16 bit, so for most tasks they are quite a bit faster than a 15MHz Z80-based calculator, even though they only run 12MHz. Obviously, it depends on code quality, but at least in the case of the ROM, that is no problem.

68k is actually 32 bit, but has 16 bit memory and instructions. 68040, IIRC, has 32 bit memory words. In the case of the ROM, well, it seems to work fine at 12Mhz.

32-bit? Wow! That is news to me. I only program it in TI-BASIC & C, so I would not know.

Although, I suppose that the TI-BASIC logical operators using 32 bits might have been a good clue. :) TI-BASIC should allow using scientific notation in binary & hexadecimal, not just decimal.

Additionally the Arithmetic unit of the 68k is 16 bit. EG a 32 bit add is internally done as two sequential 16 bit adds. So for the 68k stick with 16 bit math and your code will execute faster. This is sort of a half baked 32 bit mode.

Most instructions are 16 bit, but a lot of them are variable length: cmp.b #23,d0 will take 4 bytes.

Also once a processor has cache using the term 'word' to describe the data bus isn't accurate. The cache will always be filled with 32 bit reads, even if the processor requested a 16 bit word from memory. Another example are the G4 PPCs I use at work: it has a 64 bit memory bus but a 32 bit word.

I'm in the same situation, except I'm two grades behind you.

...Wait...

They're making 89 PLATINUMS?!?
Where can I get these?!?
What features?!? Color? Sound? MPEG-4 support?

it has a 640*480*256 lcd, 1Gb of memory, a 155 MHz Pentium, built in speaker, and the OS is open source!!! :p

Its screen is only flat? Why not a volumetric screen, say 256x256x256x256?

You forgot the 1 TB RAID array!

No 256 colors, use an iPod screen that has 65536 colors!

Holy crap!

Are you serious?

yes im serious.

Yes I am only going into 7th grade :) what is it to you man, so what if i have an 84 and am only in middle school. And I am serious

84 in middle school is pretty common where I live...but an 89 is even rare in college for some reason...COME ON PEOPLE!!!

83+ is the big one here in oregon :)