Re: HP48 vs TI-92


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Re: HP48 vs TI-92



Darrel Wilson wrote:
> > The thing that kills it for me is you can't use it on any tests!  QWERTY
> keyboard.  If they allowed those, I'd take a pentium 150 laptop with Maple,
> Mathematica, Derive, Excel, Lotus, a programming language (for those
> annoying problems you know how to solve, but not quickly...thus a computer)
> and whatever other stuff I could think of!  I'd save the money to get a
> TI-92 along with my HP-48GX if it didn't have that darn
> keyboard....Regards,
>
> darrel_wilson@bendnet.com


When I was at university (last year) in OZ, you had to write down the
make and model of your calculator, and NOTHING PROGRAMMABLE was
allowed.  I heard that this year they were a bit more lax on this; but
that HP48 with its big screen would, upon a glance, stand out.  I heard
this was getting lax as their list of valid calculators was being
ignored as it was 10 years out of date; but I'm sure someone would
recognize the Ferrarri and the Lamborghini of pocketsized engineering
hardware.


I am surprised as people here are allowed to take programmable
calculators into tests, as anything with RAM I could rack up with so
much info that passing would be impossible!!


Matthew "My other calculator is a piece of s__t too" Lamari


Comments here are my own, not my company's.


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