Survey posted 2002-01-15 10:02 by Eric.

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First Comment, yahoo! TI-89's rule!

Not first comment. WOO!

At least you got Xth comment

Shuttup. I'm sick of hearing "first post". This is the only board I post on where comments like that stay here. Nobody gives a damn.

And you wern't first poster.

Now for a reason for me posting:

I'd get an 89 _if_ I was going to get a new calculator. But I don't need a new one.

Damn Strait, you tell em'.

89's rock. They can do so much more, and the games are awesome!!

Yeah, I love my 89. But buying a calc only for games is not a very good idea. I bought a GBA for just $90 (my 89 was $140) and it's games are better than any possible calc game. The only bad thing about GBA is that you'll have to buy games, that might be a thing that makes people buy calcs for gaming purposes. Anyways, I like 89's and I also make games for them.

And how much do the games cost?
Now how much do they cost for an 89 <grin>?
When do you use your GBA in class?
When do you use your 89 in class <grin>?
'nuff said
(Not that I don't like the GBA, because I have one, I'm just merely saying that the 89 does have certain advantages over the GBA)

Really nice web page Konstantin Beliakov!

Yep, but f2s will quit hosting for free :( and if you won't pay, this webpage will disappear

"Don't insult or flame other people in your comments. Keep such sentiments to private email, or better yet, avoid them completely."

remember this guideline?

Yeah...

Remember this one?

-Please be constructive and keep comment topics relevant to the article you are replying to.

how about this:

-Messages containing "first comment" boasts, requests for game ports, or criticisms of "newsworthiness" will generally be deleted.

haha nice ;-)

Reply before any other reply, perhaps, rather than youknowwhat?

Yeah, very cool. Anyone who is that silly to go psycho whenever they get post X deserves getting yelled at.

There are enough posts already, why post if all you are going to say is how quick you were to post nothing?

I agree!

PS: I got post X!

If everybody paid no heed to these first post messages then it wouldn't happen so often. But since there is no chance of that happening I will have my little rant. If everybody were just proud about being able to post on a reputable forum such as this one and shut up about who posted at one point in time, the world would be a better place. Not that this site actually has a chance of impacting anybody in a meaningful way, but who knows? Do you have no feelings and let your hearts of stone preside when you think of the poor deprived child whose only solace in life is getting the attention from their making a first post? Instead of cursing and ridiculing them, one person should take it upon themselves to congratulate them. The rest of the people should undertake their duty to ignore it. If this strategy were implemented this chat site will be a better place from now on. I will be checking forums at ticalc from now on to make sure that everybody behaves. Now I am done.

<troll but true>
TI-86 is the leetest!

And if you get two, you can linkplay Wormy ;)

It seems that you are just too leet for this board.

w00t.

what's leet??

elite, brutha

hurrah for TI-86! if i got a new calculator i would get an 89 because i plan on taking AP Calculus next year and it's required to have one.

btw shiar: hurry up and release wormy already :)

Required?? Since when is it required to have a calculator? I bet TI would love to hear this...

Have you ever seen a student with no calculator...?!
In my class everybody has a TI-89 or 92(+) and i can't imagine how they would do without them !

That's odd. I'm in the first year of university studying master of science and here most people use TI83(+)s. Some have 89s or 92+s, but there's an equal amount of people still using TI30X(II)s. Calculators aren't basicly required here, but handy and every type is allowed. That might seem a bit unfair, but on some exams we get to use PCs with some CAS on to equalise things and then you don't need your calc at all.

actually where i go to school, the physics department have banned ti-89 and ups...for the reason that they can do calculus. and i know that calculus 3 and 4 have banned them also...not sure about calculus 1 and 2. as far as im concerned, if you are passing in an ap class in high school because of your calculator then you will be wasting money when you get to college because you wont REALLY know how to do calculus

my school made a TI-83+ or TI-89 required for Geometry and up and in AP Calculus it is a hughe disadvantage not to have one. People may argue with me but who here truely enjoys curve sketching?

Nobody in our school is allowed to have an 89 or up...

Nobody in our school is allowed to have anything else than a 83 or 83+.

I feel screwed...

my school requires a graphing calc for ap calculus.

most people have an 83(+) (in particular the special edition--because it "looks good"/is "see-thru")

i'm the only one in the entire school who has an 89!
ah ha ha ha ha ha haaaahhhhhhhh!

i didn't get a 92+ because it can't be used on the SAT.

How cruel. That makes me feel even more sucked.

On the other hand it's probably a problem to get good prog's, 'cos you're the onlyone looking for 89 prog's.

No chatting, no compatibility, trouble with teachers who just don't want to believe it's NOT a Gameboy or palmtop...

That makes me feel a lot better :-).

i'll bet it does.
me with an 89 and superior functionability, games, lcd, memory, processor, etc... and no compatibility or link possibilities

except when i pull out my old 83+
but generally, i stick with my 89 especially since teachers don't care how much it looks like a palm, neo geo or whatever

You're a lucky guy.

Our teachers suck.

My school's kinda funny. You see, way back in 9th grade, one of my friends got a great deal on 86's, so pretty much half the school has 86's. Then, around 11th grade in precal, the teacher only knew how to use 82 and 83 (plus included). Naturally, most people bought a 83+ from the school itself. I have an 89, ever since the end of 9th grade, and we were allowed to use it, but now our school bans them, cause they got really powerful calculus capacbilities. (although, it doesn't really do much in 3 dimensions (partly cause it wasn't built for 3d (unlike one of HP's calc's, which I forget))) Unlucky me, I though of taking my 89 out and placing it into an 83+'s body, cause they are alike, but then I thought that there would have to be an 83 look to it as well, cause the teachers all wander around in class, to check your calc's. I probably could program a shell to simlulate an 83, possibly a TSR, except that I don't have the time at all to take on such a large project. I had once made a small prog for AMS 1.05 that would make all the progs disappear, and the memory screen would register zero bytes used. (except for system resources) I even had a prototype version of it where it would keep all your apps even after a reset, but then AMS 2.xx came out, and I scrapped the project. Oh well, It doesn't really matter now, cause I got so used to doing calculations without a calculator of any type, but it still helps out on the SAT's. But, if I was to buy another calculator, I'd probably buy another 89, just because then I could mess around with this one, so that my Hardware 1.00 one wouldn't get messed up. The other TI calc's don't interest me that much, simply cause I've used them before, and nothing compares to the power of the 89.

You don't need any thing higher than a 4 function calculator for the SAT. Trust me I took it allready. Technically you dont need a calculator.

I wish my school would require 89's...

I would only buy a new calculator if it were an updated 86.

I fully second that!

hear hear! i had thought of that, but TI probably won't make one because they are too interested in "bigger, better, faster" calculators that are going to be banned from standardized tests because of their advanced capabilities. all i want is a TI-86 with FlashROM. i'd be happy.

>>"bigger, better, faster"
"cooler-looking, heavier, too-big-to-fit-in-pocket size, spiffy things you'll never use" calculators