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Texas Instruments Announces New Calculator

Posted by Hemos on from the put-in-all-your-school-info dept.

S. Kinney writes "TI recently announced the development of a new calculator, known as the Voyage 200, to replace the TI-92+. The software changes are rather minor, as the device is designed to be compatible with the 92, though the addition of a clock makes the Voyage more functional for some, and the case of the device enjoys a new design. Perhaps the most useful upgrade to the 92+ is the addition of more memory, for a sum of 2.7 MB of storage. No word on release date, but it'll be interesting to see how this comes out. It may be one more step towards releasing a modern-day Avigo, their failed PDA from a few years back. "

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  1. TI Calculators saved my college career. by Xenopax · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have never gotten through my long lectures without my handy tetris playing calculator.

  2. Me want! by CrosseyedPainless · · Score: 2, Funny

    My geek 'nards just expanded 20%, and my 92+ is already starting to look like something an Amish farmer would be permitted to own.

    Damn them, DAMN them for pre-announcing this!

  3. Gratutious Simpsons quotation. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    TI recently announced the development of a new calculator, known as the Voyage 200, to replace the TI-92+. The software changes are rather minor, [...] though the addition of a clock makes the Voyage more functional for some.

    Guess TI learned from Homer:
    "People are afraid of new things. You should have just taken an existing product and put a clock in it or something."

    -- Homer Simpson, on the revolutionary baby translator of which he is presented with a prototype, which makes Maggie's baby-talk intelligible.
    ( Immediate source)

    (Note that shameless, off-topic karma-whoring is done in AC mode! Recommend adoption of practice.)
  4. Tetris® on a calculator and how to make it by yerricde · · Score: 3, Funny

    handy tetris playing calculator.

    Which calculator is that? BPS has never authorized a TETRIS® game for the TI, Casio, or HP calculator platforms. You may have had a falling tetramino game (incidentally, here's how to make one), but it wasn't Tetris brand (for instance, I remember playing "Jetris" on a TI-89 calculator, where the J was a reversed half-uncial T); if it was, the author infringed the trademark on Tetris. We don't want ticalc.org to shut down again, do we?

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    Will I retire or break 10K?
  5. Dvorak layout? by yerricde · · Score: 3, Funny

    Having the QWERTY, and thus the horizontal layout, prevents the calculator from being used on many college placement exams, and college exams themselves.

    Watch a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard hack appear on ticalc.org.

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    Will I retire or break 10K?
  6. 1 a sin() 2 ^ a cos() 2 ^ + = by Hobbex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I wonder why anybody does math with infix notation. Why can't they teach clearly more intuitive formulas like:

    0 1 e i Pi * ^ + =

    or:

    u v * ' u ' v * v ' u * + =

    in school....

  7. TI vs. HP by dillon_rinker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lots of TI vs HP threads in the discussion. They are all silly. They all boil down to:

    My Turing machine is better than your Turing machine!