Survey posted 2000-11-01 22:59 by Andy Selle.

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I have only seen only a few hp calculators in my day and never seen any one use a casio. At the high school I went to you were laughed (in some circles) if you had anything else than a TI.

Everyone in my school has TI calcs, except mb a few have some scientific ones made by other people, but graphing calc wise, all TI.

The school has a bunch of 82's, 83+'s, and i think some calc classes have 89's.
They tell you to get a 82 or 83, they mean 83 plus but they are all idiots.

True, but those who are unaware of the fact that the calculators are programmable really can't tell the difference between an 83 and an 83+.

Except for, "Why are your buttons grey and mine are white?"

Seriously, though, I was told by someone that there was no difference between the two calculators after I told her that I couldn't put TI-83 assembly games on her TI-83+.

like that in my class... the people couldnt tell the difference between my 92 and my 83...

How the **** can anyone not be able to tell the difference between an 83 and a 92?!!

they dont know much about calculators

they are two completly differnt shapes and looks, they must be really stupid

noone else at my school has a graphing calc

Just like the people who can't tell the difference between a Casio FX2 and my 83+. They all ask me to put MirageOS and Pheonix on their crap machines.

At my university, the graphing calculator market is dominated by TI, although there are a few Casio and Sharp graphics calculators around, and me and my friends are all ordering HPs (we already have TIs which got us through high school, but for engineering, the HP really is better). However, the scientific calculator market is dominated by Casio, with almost no other calcs to be seen, except the occasional Sharp.

All the people that I know including me have TI scientific calculators. I've never seen any other ones.

Just wondering, what kind of HP are you getting. I've been thinking about getting one too(also an engineer major).

There are two major HP graphing calcs. the HP 48GX and the HP 49G. The 49 is newer and has a flash memory as well as both algebraic and RPN entry. The 48 is older, but it has more support (and more engeneers use it) as well as an expandable memory card slot ( as well as an IR port, a feture the 49 lacks). There are others (48G, 48G+) but they aren't as good.
As for my school, there are all TI's exept for me with my 49G (ok, I also have an 83+) and one other kid with a casio.

In my school, only the people in gifted programs and honors classes own them. I am proud to be one of them. (Patriotic music)

When I was student, (about 1989, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) I was known on my University department as a big fan of Casio FX-8000. I also remarked that most of other students followed me, and Casio was dominant. Only a few had HP-28S and later HP-48SX.

After I discovered TI89 I definitely decided to buy it. Now, when I became University lecturer, during examinations, I remark that many students have TI calculators, although some of them do not know how powerfull tool they have!

Why would you buy at Ti-92? Its the same calc as an 89 only with a huge useless keyboard which is never allowed on tests. Any of the 83s are sooo inferior to the 86 which is only $10 more than they are and is more than adequate in Calc 2 (I take it as a junior). I also want to get some money to get an 89.

I use the keyboard all the time for typing in names of functions and variables. Not to mention the keyboard feels more "loose" than the compacted 89, screen also. No alpha locks. Glad I got one.

As for the money for the 89, why not have a bake sale? It worked for Dan. I hear brownies are very popular this time of year.

i like the keyboard on mine too

The TI-86 doesn't even have an imaginary number key.

No, but you can emulate it easily.

1) Press [2nd][4][F2] to enter the constant editor.
2) Type i and press ENTER.
3) Type (0,1) and press EXIT.

That will create an imaginary constant called i, which will take 40% less time to type than (0,1).