Survey posted 1999-10-17 03:15 by Andy.

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I have had my TI-89 since August '98 (when it first came out). Go 1-2 years! Go TI-89! Go High School Seniors! Don't you just love it when your calculator is smarter than your Calculus teacher? hehe.

Did anyone else notice it says "TI Graphics calculator" ? Was that a typo, or was it supposed to say that?

i said something about that a while ago my comments up there †

Ahh. This page was so big I had a hard time trying to find if someone else had mentioned it. I tried a search for "TI Graphics" on the page, but of course that didn't help because that's in every message header. doh!

I've had my TI-86 since Freshman year in Highschool, taking Algebra 2. Only then did we ever need them.. In middle school, there were 85's and 82's, and they looked nice... but, I couldn't immediately notice the differences between the two, considering the reasonable price difference. Also, $95 for a TI-85 (at the time) wasn't cheap. :)

Well, eventually the time came, and the teacher said "Get an 83 if you don't plan to go far [far meaning like stats] in math. Get an 86 if you're looking into Calculus, Engineering and beyond..." thus, freshman in highschool taking on Algebra2, I decided for the 86... (I'm a junior now in calculus, like everyone else on here probably, hehe).

So, a bit more than 2 years later, here I am. :) I've only got 4 games on my calc, 1 of which I play- the new Nemesis game, that reminds me of my old nintendo game Gradius. Then there's Tetris & BomberBloke for ppl who borrow my calc to play. And TechWarez (85ASM) is awesome... It's like Worms! Well, watching the CPU vs CPU demo is pretty neat itself... (screensaver?) :) I've played almost every game 85/86 game that's been released (on my 86 w/ ASE/Rascall/YAS, the basis of my ticalc.org website), beaten some cool RPG's, messed around with programs that never went public *g*, and then some. Eventually, those programs just sit on your calc, and you realize that you haven't touched that program in a month. So poof it goes.

All the other space is used for TextView (my fav app, Clem rocks :)), cspread, and some other nifty apps. coupled with tons of text files for textview. Heh, I haven't crashed my calc in months. :)

I got my TI-82 from my cousin going to college about a year ago, and TI-85 from friend earlier this year. The TI-85 is turbo'd and sooooo cool. :) Daedalus v0.4 at full res w/ at least 20 fps ROCKS! Well, for a little while. *g*

Your calculator hasn't crashed in a month?!?! Wow!!! My calculator usually crashes or freezes every 3 days (partly because I do a lot of Beta testing). Good thing I have 4 backup files saved on my computer :)

Mine hasn't crashed since last March.

--BlueCalx

Wow!!! I am awed by your oh so great acomplishment. How do you do it? I have two calculators and if one of their memories don't wipe, the other one will. I gress I'm cursed or something. Please, tel me your secret.

--Bobman

What kind of programs were you running (ASM/Basic), what kind of calculator, and are you a programmer?
Do you actually use it often?

To answer your questions, I always run ASM programs except for the basic programs I make. For some unknown reason, these two types of programs seldomly clashes with eachother. The ASM programs sometimes mess up my BASIC programs. I have no idea why.

To answer the questions of what language I program in, I program mostly in basic, but sometimes in ASM too (I'm just learning). I'm thinkling of making programs that are hybrids of both. That way, it can be the best of both worlds: the simplicity of BASIC and the amazing abilities of ASM.

By the way, I own a TI-89, like you!; as well as a TI-83.

My 83+'s memory always clears! I have ION 1.1 and a bunch of different programs. Sometimes I will exit a game or something and it will give me a blank screen for seven seconds, then it says "TI 83 PLUS version 1.03 RAM CLEARED" and I dont know why! So now I have two group files stored in archive memory as backups so when that happens I can be up and running again. It is kinda annoying though, I'm not really sure why it clears.

eagle

Try upgrading your rom version to 1.17. that should help.

There's an ION version 1.17? When was that released? I didn't see it on the news post ups on Ticalc. If it is really out, then I'm gettin it. By the way, is it even IN the archives, or is it in some other site? If it is, please direct me there.

--Bobman

Bobman,

There is no ION version 1.17. He means the caculator's ROM version officially from TI. I just did that last night... but it's only 1.12. Where is 1.17 unless you accidentally typed that? Thanks

eagle

I was just at the Texas Instruments website and the most current rom version for the TI-83 Plus is 1.12.

Is there any way to use TI's Flash upgrade with a Parallel link? Just wondering. and p.s. I'm sorry for calling the guys that replied to my previous message spoiled, my mistake, I guess having everything given to you or bought at a cheap price doesn't mean you're spoiled ;)

Ron!

I don't mean to brag but I went out and bought a TI-81, the very first TI Graphing Calculator inJuly of 1990 the very first day it came out. I still have it and now have a TI-83 Plus for my seventh-grade algebra class and I still love the 81.