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TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Posted by Nick on 5 January 2001, 22:12 GMT

TI has announced that a new silver TI-83+ will be produced. It looks a lot like the gray iMacs, Handspring Visors, my old GBP, and so forth. It has around 1.5 megs of available Flash ROM and 24K of RAM (quite the insane amount of storage space, if you ask any TI type person). It's estimated to be available in April or May, 2001.

Mmmmmm... eye candy in calculator form. I wish they did this sort of thing with the 89.
Wait, I use Mathematica now. Never mind. :)

Update (Eric): One more interesting thing to note is that the new TI-83+'s will have a CPU of 15 Mhz, which is more than twice as fast as the current model's 6 Mhz and 50% faster than the TI-92. Additionally, Detached Solutions has announced that a brand-spanking new silver TI-83+ will be the grand prize to their Application Programming Contest, previously mentioned on ticalc.org here.

Update (Eric): Yeah, okay, I suck. I forgot that the new TI-83+ will be a Z80 running at 15 Mhz, which is still slower than the TI-89/92 running a 68K processor. So don't go trashing your TI-89 yet :).

 


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Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Andy Sharrow  Account Info

Why is everyone talking about how it looks? Who cares! With all the upgraded stuff, I would be able to put up with an "ugly" calc. If you don't like it, put a diferent slide case on it!

     6 January 2001, 22:38 GMT


Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
nyall  Account Info

Just by looks it begs to be stolen.

     7 January 2001, 23:54 GMT

yeah but...
Max Seckel  Account Info
(Web Page)

Fast forward to january 2002

TI has just announced its newest calculator, the ti-83 pluse silver alpha ex 3 gold quantum edition. the new calculator features nearly 1 gig of memory and a 100mhz z80 processor. however, it still uses to same os and screen so i guess you'll be able to compute 3+3 really really quickly.. the calculator is expected to cost around $25-$30 more than the ti-83 plus silver alpha ex 3 gold.

     7 January 2001, 05:26 GMT

Re: yeah but...
vegetto34  Account Info
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Ti has yet again wasted an investment. They should have trashed the 1 gig of memory (keeping the old 768 megs) and put a wireless modem on it!?! They should have learned their lesson last month when the Ti-96 sold out. Besides the fact that the outer casing is made of titanium and the monochrome lcd screen is 2x3 inches... I think they need to add a decent video card - say a GeForce 4? - and maybe a 4" color lcd, still no color screens!?!. TI has really did it this time, ug... Just can't wait until they unveal the 83+ silver alpha ex 4 gold quantum edition.

     7 January 2001, 10:16 GMT


Re: Re: yeah but...
cava Account Info

Haven't you all heard of the new TI-2500? It is being released in just a couple of months. It will feature a built in mini-laser printer, 2 gigs of ram, 5 gigs of rom, stereo speakers, satellite modem, and a DVD drive. Not to mention it's awesome 6mhz z80 processor. I can't wait!!! YEEEHAAAHHHH!!!!!

     9 January 2001, 23:01 GMT


Re: yeah but...
Robert Mohr  Account Info
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...it also features 24K of RAM.

     11 January 2001, 00:44 GMT


Re: Re: yeah but...
Robert Mohr  Account Info
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(that's with almost 1 gig of ROM)

     11 January 2001, 00:51 GMT

Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Peter Bartoszek  Account Info

I just bought an 89 after using the 83+ for a semester. I see no need to expand the memory in this primitive calculator. From what I am reading, TI would have better spent their efforts on an enhanced 86. It would be too bad for me if they announced an upgraded 89. I hate having old stuff.

     7 January 2001, 05:43 GMT

Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
nobody_important  Account Info

With all this storage space, maybe a bunch of people can now make a CAS system

     8 January 2001, 07:54 GMT


Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
lalu

Now *that* would be interesting!

     8 January 2001, 16:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
S67  Account Info
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Yes, but would that make the 83++ illegal on the act (or sat. I can't rember which.) Or, would they have to erase the memory on the 83++. Probably they wouldn't do anything, making the 83++ a VERY popular calculator, and so they would make money, what they want.

     9 January 2001, 02:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Robert Mohr  Account Info
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ACT, and the ACT checks calculators as they come out for a cas, and one not included by default probably wouldn't be noticed. And if they do make a complete check, then you can ask them to clear the memory (RAM), which won't clear the ROM where the CAS is.

     11 January 2001, 00:50 GMT

Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
alex cooke  Account Info

Keep in mind "This calculator was released to be sold alongside the TI-83 Plus and is not meant as a replacement. It is simply for those who want more power and memory."

mcmix

     8 January 2001, 16:26 GMT

Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Kiros Lionheart  Account Info

Ummm...

I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but what the heck is anyone going to do with 1.5 megs of archive? Put 94 apps in it? Give me a break. I have the *original* TI-83 Plus with 160k of archive in it and I still can't fill the whole thing up. I keep on average 30 programs (plus MirageOS) at a time on it and only use about 5-10 of them more than once a week.

And how long is it gonna take to Garbage Collect? A week?

--Darkfire

     9 January 2001, 02:00 GMT

hmmm.
VeXXoR Account Info
(Web Page)

if your calculator is real messed up and it take forever to garbage collect, with only 160k of RAM
I timed myself to finish garbage collecting and it took me about 55 seconds after i screwed around alot
but with the new 1.5 megabyte Flash ROM it would take A LOT longer to Garbage Collect IF you had the 6 Mhz that the TI-83 Plus has. BUT the new TI-83 Plus Silver Edition has 15 MHz so it will be a little longer, if i guessed right.

     9 January 2001, 22:53 GMT


Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Robert Mohr  Account Info
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First of all, ARE there 94 apps for the 83+?

     11 January 2001, 00:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Kiros Lionheart  Account Info
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Probably not. But they say you can on their web site (linked above).

--Darkfire

     12 January 2001, 02:35 GMT

New apps :)
Vejita  Account Info
(Web Page)

You'll notice they finally put up an info page for this new appplication thats pretty much been completed, even their testing is basically concluded.
http://www.ti.com/calc/flash/probsim.htm

!!! :)

-Corey

     9 January 2001, 21:36 GMT

Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Jon Schimpke  Account Info

Ok I have what probably is a stupid question, but how are the higher-level calculators able to do grayscale graphics? I vaguely remember something about different shades of gray with the pixels, but I can't remember really. Could someone shed some light on this?

     11 January 2001, 23:32 GMT

I HAVE A PROBLEM HERE
Travis Blevins  Account Info

OK my ti-83 plus goes nuts everytime i press 2nd i wanna know if it was something i did or something wrong with the calc and if i can fix it? please help me

     12 January 2001, 01:58 GMT


Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
walker567 Account Info

i have an 83+, rom 1.12 i believe. anyway, when i went to play sqrxz the game, it locked up big time. now everytime i hit the 'on' button, it flips on for a second showing random pixels, then shuts off itself. even if you insert a link cable, it flips back off. i've searched the TI site, but no luck. my friend fixed the same problem by hitting a sequence of buttons on his calc, but he can't remember which ones of course...

if anyone knows how to fix this problem, i would really appreciate it!

     15 January 2001, 05:32 GMT

Re: Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
gorion Account Info

I believe that pressing CLEAR a couple of times would make it stay on, but when my calculator did the same thing, I could not get it to work properly until I reset all memory. There's some background on Troubleshooting in the TI-83 Plus Guidebook as well.

By the way, I recently found out that pressing MODE and then Alpha + (letter "S") will tell you the ROM version of the calculator and offer to do a self test (if you press ENTER, it will clear all memory). I know this works on a TI-82, TI-83 Plus, and TI-86 (assuming also on TI-83 and TI-85). MirageOS does not protect from that! Good luck.

     15 January 2001, 09:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
gorion Account Info

By CLEAR, I meant you press ON, and then you press CLEAR a few times until it works.

At least when I did that, I was able to get it on, so that I was able to reset the memory. However, I could not simply clear the RAM, and if I attempted, it would lock up, and I would have to get it on again until I decided to clear all memory, after which it worked fine. (Some of the special ways of turning it on are holding DEL or CLEAR while taking out one battery, keeping on holding it and putting the battery in, after which the calculator might turn on properly. [Read the TI Guidebook for this, though.]) Good Luck!

     15 January 2001, 09:59 GMT


Mode + Alpha S
Knight/Rocket Account Info

Mode and Alpha S works the best for complex problems, and this sounds as if it would be the best option for your calc.

Knight/Rocket's 10c.

     15 January 2001, 21:58 GMT


Re: Re: Re: TI Announces TI-83+ Silver Edition
Justin Doe

The same thing happened to me. What I did was take the original plastic casing and put the calc and original docs in it. Then I got in my car and started driving to Best Buy. On my way there, my calc magicaly started working.

     23 September 2001, 05:16 GMT

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