Haha!!! Thats funny!!

I don't get the "quad" joke - someone fill me in here plz

amicek

stands for programs dealing with quadratic formula

There are TONS of them, which is especially stupid on later calculators, since they have a built-in polynomial solver.

not really quadratic toolbox for 86 is very good, even if the calc has the solver built in, since it tells more, but your right most suck for later calcs...:)

I always enjoy a good laugh!
Matt H.

/sarcasm/this is not at all realistic!!!/end sarcasm/

TI RELEASES ONLY ONE CALC IN 100 YEARS!? I DOUBT IT!
TI 2000, TI 99+, (NO TI 99)(TI 99 DOES EXIST! IT JUST ISNT A PALM SIZED CALC...) TI 2020, etc. TI 209(ti in numeric)(Which has a petium 7 2050 gigahertz processor and a trilobyte ram and 10 trilobyte flash mem) Asm games now take up approx 100000 bytes apiece, average game life (time of start to time of finish) now 3 years, TI decides AAAs arent the best answer. Cordless power outlets invented, to the delight of everyone. TI merges with intel,merges with Mitro$oft which amasses an army to take over the world, King Gates now sits on throne, he dies and has a shrine the size of Texas in his name. 2 years later technology invented to bring back the dead. Bill is the first to try it out, but it was BETA and disfigured him horribly. Massive worldwide suicide at this news. People jump into the sea and drink toxic cool aid. Programmers electricute themselves. Soon we go back to the stone age. Then 6500000000000 years later, a man named bill gates is born again... But soon the sun dies and earth is a cold world, good thing we relocated to 65% of all inhabitable planets back in 5087.

Then again, maybe not.
--R
Ronnie B

Not 'trilobyte." That's an ancient, primeval anthropod. You mean "terabyte." ;)

ok its seem someone has a we little to much time on there hands and a little stash of "herbs"

what? herb? where? why wasn't i invited to the party?

you were...you were just too stoned to pick up the phone. it's you're own fault, buddy.

-KAKE
IP "...the hell with the brain...we're looking at total sexual rejection here!"

heh heh heh, i wasn't stoned, i was studying a black hole, thinking of how many super strings could _possibly_ construct such a monstrous phenomenon, when all of the sudden, i find myself staring at ticalc.org, wondering where the hell the party was. then there was a fuzzy thought of something to do with a 92+ and food, i'm still not sure on that one... no drugs... (:^)

I got a TI-99, it's REALLY old, and i'm just about to scrap it for it's components. But really, why would you think TI's gonna bring back a "computer" in the form of a calculator? It just won't make the cut.. Besides, the TI series is kinda weird... Anything below "70" is a scientific calculator, and everything above "100" is either a pritinting or standard 5 function calculator. That leaves only 30 spaces for graphing calcs. They could make another TI-7X that's better than the 73, or bring out a TI-84, easing the jump between the 83 and the 85 a little more... Hmmm..

<wishfulthinking>
I'm personally waiting for the TI-88: All the functions of the 89, 68K based system, with no flash apps. :)
</wishfulthinking>

--BlueCalx

TI-88 existed! It was built in year 1982 as successor of popular TI59. As I remember it was first TI calculator with alphanumeric display and when you turned it on it asked "May I help you", you answered with Yes and started to use it.
First experiences with it were horrible as many calculators failed work only a few days after purchase.
Combined with bad software production (no Internet in that time, calculator magazines were only sources of programs), this caused that TI-88 was redrawn from production only 4 months after introduce!

I have a TI-99, it is really called the TI-99/A. I bieleve the TI-95 and TI-74 need to be rereleased.

if memory serves me right, there was a ti84, released only in germany and was discontinued right away.
smurf

This is really funny.
Too bad TI won't go open source sooner ;)

Only five and a half hours until 2000 in Mountain time. (Colorado)

7 hours on the west coast... pacific time! wohoo! this is pretty great... i wonder if ticalc will be around for even ten years more. by then, ti will be making supercomputers smaller than calculators, and the name will have to be changed. oh well, happy new year!!!

Compared to computers a few decades ago, TI *is* making portable supercomputers :)

And a heck of a lot smaller than those old calculators...

This brings up an intresting thought... In the Guiness book of world records, there was an record of 'biggest test for a yes or no answer' i think the topic was the cray 2 supercomputer took about 6 days to figure out weather something like 5^18713890125+1 was a prime number, and it wasn't.
My TI-89 figured it out in less than 1 second.. How pathetic.

Overflow, my friend.

--BlueCalx

Hey, i wasn't kidding.. Are you sure you have HW 1 and AMS ver 2.03?

HW1, AMS v1.00.
I can run everything on my calculator and still do math within the bounds of sanity. ;)

--BlueCalx

I get infinity... the highest power of 5 I could get on my 92+ was 879 without scientific notation: (5^879+1) the answer is 496 208 051 664 804 783 733 185 591 647 624 875 3...wow nevermind lol. the last 4 numbers are 626 though.

~Manny

whoops I made a mistake... I mean 5^878+1