| ▲ | Georgelemental 3 hours ago |
| No mention of the TI-84 calculator? Used by millions of American schoolchildren, programmable in BASIC, and runs on Z80 (B/W models)/eZ80 (color display models) to this day |
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| ▲ | QuantumNomad_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Used by millions of American schoolchildren Europe too :) When I was in high school, TI-84 Plus was the calculator the school told all of us to buy. And I see that stores in my country are still stocking them so I have to assume they are still being bought and used. Many hours were spent by me and my friends making and showing off little programs in TI-BASIC on those calculators. None of us ever took it all the way to learning Z80 assembly however. I printed a whole manual about Z80 assembly programming for the TI-84 Plus and started reading it but never wrote a single line of assembly for it. Yet. |
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| ▲ | aarroyoc an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It depends on the country I guess. In Spain I never saw a person using Texas Instruments calculators. Casio and HP are way more popular. | | |
| ▲ | inigyou 20 minutes ago | parent [-] | | We had both depending on the school and sometimes even the teacher. fx-9750G and GII didn't support assembly programming... unless you used an undocumented procedure to flash them with unsupported firmware from a different calculator model... |
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| ▲ | blauditore 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Same here (actually had a voyage 200, but same same I guess). It's actually quite insulting that TI kept (and keeps?) selling waaay outdated hardware at horrendous prices. It's the SAP/Oracle business model applied to school hardware. | | |
| ▲ | II2II an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | While I agree on bit about horrible prices, the TI calculators are well suited to their intended task[1] so I will object to the outdated hardware part. Stability is a good thing in the context of classrooms. Why should schools be spending money on replacement hardware, software, and textbooks when the curriculum itself is fundamentally unchanged?[2] [1] Except the screens on the older models were truly horrible, from a brightness and contrast perspective. [2] From my recollection, the calculators interfaced with hardware and software from other vendors. Then, of course, there was the vendor lock-in provided by textbook publishers. | |
| ▲ | duskwuff an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Same here (actually had a voyage 200, but same same I guess). Not the same, actually! Unlike the TI-83/84 series, the TI-89, -92, and Voyage-200 all used a 68000 CPU, with a completely different (and much better) operating system. I wrote a web-based emulator for the Voyage-200 a few years ago: https://woofle.net/v200/ |
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| ▲ | TheBigSalad an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| TI-83 for me. We didn't have that advanced technology. |
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| ▲ | vq 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | TI-83 was built on Z80 as well. I remember hand-assembling a program for it with pen and paper, something I did earlier with the Sinclairs. |
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