New TI calc?
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IAmACalculator
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 09:29:51 am    Post subject:
I was browsing Cemetech, and I came across this, which links to this and this. So, wadda ya think? Looks pretty real, as the patent office link shows. It looks like the plans for a new TI calculator that would use a stylus. I guess TI ISN'T just making copies of their old models now, they are working on something really big.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 09:37:19 am    Post subject:

A stylus-based calc? That would certainly make some interesting games...

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leofox
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 10:42:22 am    Post subject:
that looks pretty cool. Too bad it will be too expensive for me anyway :P

But on the other hand, why dont you ppl get a PDA if you want to program a game for stylus and color?!
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 05:52:34 pm    Post subject:
'Cuz we're nuts, and cuz a PDA probably wouldn't have the mathematical capabilities, nor all those user friendly buttons.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 07:40:15 pm    Post subject:
And teachers would be more suspicious if they saw someone using a PDA than if they were using a calculator.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 08:05:28 pm    Post subject:
It would be wonderful if that beauty ever went to market. Then again, that might not ever happen. TI could simply be trying to wedge another company out of the rights, without necessarily having any intention produce. I certainly hope that will not be the case.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 09:16:39 pm    Post subject:
Yeah. It would be awful if it went the way of the Qonos and never was released. The Qonos would have been the calc to end all calcs.
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Rezek
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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 10:35:15 pm    Post subject:
...and 350 dollars. It'd be cheaper to buy a psp and write a simple calc application for it.
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MissingIntellect


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Posted: 27 Mar 2006 11:37:07 pm    Post subject:
Just because there's a patent doesn't mean it's actually going to be made...
The patent is so that one of TI's competitors can't come out with something similar...
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 09:21:55 am    Post subject:
True. But it's an awesome departure from TI's usual line of thinking re: calculator design, so it would be good if they did decide to produce something like it.
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 05:10:00 pm    Post subject:
Think of all the cool games you could make! Very Happy
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006 05:22:40 pm    Post subject:
TI's primary business is education, this would be way outside the budget of a school, mabey in the future but i doubt very much that this will be made anytime soon
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 03:57:03 pm    Post subject:
Brazucs wrote:

A stylus-based calc? That would certainly make some interesting games...
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I notice there is no [PRGM] button on the prototype. Surprised
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 05:09:26 pm    Post subject:
It also doesn't have a Π button.
I'm sure a stylus based calc would have a special PRGM button on the screen.
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 08:39:36 pm    Post subject:
probably wouldn't be too efficient to use stylus to do quick math
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 08:56:10 pm    Post subject:
That's what the buttons are for.

A stylus might not be great for regular math, but for analytic geometry...!
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 09:00:27 pm    Post subject:
they probably would need something better than a 68k right? or am I just totally ignorant of my 89ti's potentials?
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Posted: 31 Mar 2006 09:01:39 pm    Post subject:
I'd imagine analytic geometry wouldn't be that bad. Geometer's Sketchpad achieves some form of it.
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Posted: 04 Apr 2006 08:41:24 am    Post subject:
If this is truly a crossbreed between a graphing calculator and a PDA, then TI is really losing their minds. How many tests do you think such a calculator would be restricted from? The 92 family cannot be used on many standardized tests because you can easily copy test questions into the memory using the QWERTY keyboard. Imagine how easy it would be to write those questions instead...

If TI is really going to produce this, then I think they're losing it.
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Posted: 04 Apr 2006 11:20:36 am    Post subject:
Jeremiah Walgren wrote:
If this is truly a crossbreed between a graphing calculator and a PDA, then TI is really losing their minds.  How many tests do you think such a calculator would be restricted from?  The 92 family cannot be used on many standardized tests because you can easily copy test questions into the memory using the QWERTY keyboard.  Imagine how easy it would be to write those questions instead...

If TI is really going to produce this, then I think they're losing it.
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Is that the reason it's forbidden? Never knew that.. What about an 83+ with a ti keyboard? Razz
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