Texas Instruments Announces New Calculator

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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My first geek moment

[CatherineCornelius]

Bringing a TI-58 programmable calculator home from work to play with--I got some very weird looks.

1979, the first PET and TRS-80 personal computers were in the shops, but hardly anybody was buying, and computers were expensive things in big air conditioned rooms with noisy fans and reel-to-reel tape decks, and ours had a cool vector scan terminals that did screen prints to expensive, glossy thermal paper.

Our fax machine had a spinning roller that you wrapped an A4 sheet around. The thing spun for twenty minutes whilst what was probably a single photocell scanned it in a corkscrew pattern and sent the bits through an acoustic coupler.

Engineers, we all possessed sliderules, and used them every day.

People prolly think I'm making this stuff up... :)

Calcuputer

[ImaLamer]

I always liked my TI-99A much more. It even had color... but that was only because you had to hook it to the TV.

Mine work flawlessly until I moved out, left it there for a few weeks and my brother smashed it with a hammer. He didn't know it worked.

He opened the expansion drive and used it as a [heavy] garage to park his hotwheels.

But now as I want to get him into programming... I wish this machine was around so I could teach him basic.