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Do these graphing calculators still use Derive (tm)? pity, there is no pc version anymore
Great memories writing games in TI-BASIC on sheets of loose-leaf paper to later transcribe manually into my TI-84+.
Hand reaches over and I lovingly pat the HP-67 sitting on my desk.
How are these still so slow?
I want a desk calculator keyboard that works with my phone. New TIs are just really cheap phones now.
Nice to see the hardware move forward. I still wish calculators were more open, or at least less locked into school-age pricing.
Classic hacker mindset - the rule said no programmable calculators, so you made it say it wasn't one. Security through labeling.
Python programming with 156 MHz and 3.5 MiB of RAM? Can a Python REPL even start up with that profile?
What's the "online calculator license" ?
"Online calculator included (four-year subscription) •($80 value)"
Q: Who else had their first exposure to programming on a Ti-83/4 calculator?
Who is using this on the SAT when there is Desmos?
That is the coolest graphing calculator I've ever seen.
Distraction free tools like this calculator, is increasingly important to help keeping focus.
I don't get it. Who is buying these calculators nowadays? It's expensive and any plot it can generate is 1 prompt away from the AI that students are already using. Also why is there a calculator license? what even is that?
Ti-30x is all you need.
If only they would build a Ti-84 RPN, I would snap it up in a heartbeat
But can it play BlockDude?
price, 165$ which is ridiculous for a device that costs them less than 20$ to build.
It runs Python!
National exams will be wild for the kids capable of programming or vibe coding.
Genuine question, who uses these in practice? In my experience, calculators beyond the basic were always banned in high school and college, cause everyone's so afraid people might store something into them, and afterwards it's just matlab and python. It's not like laptops aren't a thing that everyone has on hand.
If only kids of today loved this more than their phones.
Very very warm nostalgic fuzzy feelings here
Does it run Doom?
But when will it run GPT? (:
75” 4k OLED screens would have been unobtainable when I first used a TI.
10yrs ago they would have been 4 to 5 figures.
Now they are what? A couple hundred?
How in the world is a TI graphing calculator still $160? These 30yr old calculator chips apparently hold their value like gold…
You can claw my HP48 out of my cold, dead, hands.
I do have fond memories of my TI-82 (we couldn't afford the fancier 84 or 89). I wonder, though, after all these years did Texas Instruments corner the market and obtain an monopoly on allowed calculators for proctored tests or ... because it sure is a shame there's not competition here driving the cost of these things down and the features way up.
It's a shame that maths in American schools is equated with calculation. All you need to be a mathematician is a calculator!
TI calculators peaked with TI-89/92/v200. Functionality, low latency UX, long battery life. These are still readily available in the second hand market, at very reasonable pricing (thanks to them selling well back then).
Unfortunately, ever since, they seem to have decided to imitate smartphones and focus on making restricted devices for exam taking, rather than tools to empower the user.
Biggest ripoff in academics.
There should be a cheap open source calculators for schools and exams. It’s ridiculous that TI is still charging this.
The Python inclusion is fascinating to me. I, like many other kids in the US, did a lot of calculator programming with the TI-84 back in school. It definitely taught me the basics in a way that made my CS classes much easier. I'm jealous of the kids who now get to make that journey with Python instead of TI-Basic.
But no mention of the most important feature… I just need to know that it can still play Drug Wars.
The only thing I used mine for in high school was playing Phoenix and Drug Wars.
The race to run custom code on these is on :D
Is there any information on exactly what kind of processor is inside this thing? Since running python I'm thinking it's actually a low end mobile processor.
Looking at the price of this and other calculators, I wonder if there's a market for "dumb calculators" analogous to dumb terminals: a device with the calculator form factor, keyboard, and display, but where the actual computation happens on a paired computer/phone or a cloud endpoint over WiFi/Bluetooth.
Can we still program assembly on this one? There must be a way to hack it open.
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is any of this really necessary now that we have LLMs ?
There is something impressive about a product line that can remain culturally relevant for this long, even if part of that durability comes from a very protected niche.