Survey posted 2006-04-09 07:43 by Jon.

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Some people actually said they got their calculator instead of a Gameboy? To get my feelings out, THAT'S REALLY LAME!

By the way, I got a TI-89 as a gift when I was in fifth grade (!). I found it extremely entertaining finding out how much my calculator could really do as I progressed through junior high and entered high school math.

I wonder if the people who received their calculators as a gift received them on Christmas, on their birthday, or just for doing well in class. If you get a calculator instead of a PSP or DS as a gift, then that really is lame, unless of course if that person already had a PSP or DS.

Really? I'd prefer a V200 or 89T much more than a PSP/DS!

Definitely - same here!

*gasp*

double *gasp*!!

I haven't played my gameboy advance once since I got my ti-89 titanium, and especially since I got my ti-89 and ti-82. The games for calculators are better and I can play them during math class :)

LOL yeah right! If you mean they are better because they are cheaper, then yes you are right. However, if you meant otherwise, then the only GBA games you have played were one of those Nintendo Classics they make like the original Legend of Zelda.

one question......
who in their right mind would:

a) buy a CALCULATOR over a GBA or PSP or PS2 or XBOX or PC
b) never play another game system after (granted) you buy a calculator??
c) meld your life around the claculator just to seem "cool"

Actually, that's 3 questions. ;-)

a. No one ever mentioned buying a calc instead of a PC...
b. What if you don't feel like spending $300 on an Xbox or PS2 and really like a lot of calc games (like me)?
c. No, no, you've got it backwards. Calculators are very UNcool to normal people. That's part of the attraction, although we mostly like calculators because of what we can do with them, not because of our "image".

i agree fully

I answered the last one. I got mine as a gift this last summer because I would need it in about 2 years, and I sure am glad I did!

I had to buy my first calc for class (TI-83 Plus), but that was just one year before the TI-84 Plus came out. So I bought a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition just because I want(ed) it.

I bought my TI-92+ and TI-89 calcs specifically for writing programs in 68K assembly and in the C language. And as a side benefit, I used them for math classes.

Thank you to all of the guys that have helped with the development of TIGCC for our 68K calcs.

I hope to see something as powerful, integrated, and user-friendly as TIGCC for our Z80 counterparts!

Well, as part of the BZC project, I can say that "BASIC ASM" (the new language we've developed) is an excellent option for Z80 programming. If anyone is interested in a language easier to learn than native ASM, but with its same power and capabilities, try out BZC (see URL).

We have been discussing this on Cemetech and wanted to talk to you guys about it. http://www.cemetech.net/forum

Once BZC is fully developped, I'm preety sure it will be THE language to learn for calcs. I think it will be much easier to learn than C.

I purchased my TI-83 Plus in 7th grade for algebra. I didn't really need it though because there was a class set but I wanted one. My 89 Titanium I bought last year in 9th grade for AP Calculus just because it made life easier in calculus. (If you're wondering how i did algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, and precalculus in two years, I didn't feel like waiting for my classes catch up to me, I just tested out of classes.

dang

yikes!

That's a lot of classes to finish in 2 years...

I finished Geometry, Algebra 2, Trig, Probability and Statistics, Advanced Algebra, and Pre calc in 2 years :)

Yeah Geometry and Algebra have to be the easiest math subjects, trig is basically Geometry and Algebra put together with a focus on triangles, PreCalc is a combination of all previous subjects, and Probability/Statistics is just that, Probability/Statistics. It's not too hard people.

That's not a lot of classes. If you had been reading his post properly, he tested out of them. He didn't have to take the classes.

Oh yeah, I wonder how I missed that the first time...