Re: Which TI should I buy?


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Re: Which TI should I buy?



there you have it! i completely agree with you.
you can't fairly compare the 82 and the 85; they are
_different_ calculators with _different_ purposes.

Bhuvanesh Bhatt.

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Johnny "Big Dog" Miyares wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Phillip D. Teeple wrote:
>
> > I still fail to see the advantages of the 82.  The 85's menu system is so
> > much better, it has a custom menu, and is much more powerful with higher
> > resolution.  Why is the TI-82 better?
>
> I prefer the pull down menus.  They make sense to me as a mathematician.
>
> The catalog is put in there for folks who don't know enough to find what
> they are looking for in a menu.  I find just knowing logically what menus
> to look for things in much faster for me.  For example,
> when I need to do something involving math, I hit the math button.  when I
> want to deal with internal variables, I hit the VARS button.  When I want
> to do manipulation in the lists, I hit the STAT or LIST button.  This to
> me I would do on an 85 or an 82.  Why?  Because I know what all of the
> menus actually do.  They make logical sense to me.  The catalog is a waste
> of time for me because I already know what menus to find 90% of the 85's
> commands.  Also, for those of us that have to regularly switch from one to
> the other, it's nice to know that there is some consistency from one to
> the other.  Certain commands are not the same from one to the other, but I
> as a math teacher need to know both.  For example, "QUADREG" on the 82 is
> the same as "P2REG" on the 85.  Scrolling through the catalog, I would
> never find it, but knowing that I am evaluating statistics, I look in the
> stat menu and say, "Oh, that is what it is."  If I am teaching a class and
> need to do quadratic regression, and 95% of the class has TI-82's and I
> tell them simply that we are going to do Quadatic Regression and that is
> the QUADREG command on the 82, the 85 folks will then try scrolling
> through the catalog to find it, and won't.
>
> On top of that, the 85's menus are difficult to see, I prefer the pull
> downs.  The list features and the statistical graphing (scatterplots and
> the like) are much more easily analyzed on the 82 than the 85 due to one's
> ability to trace on a scatterplot on the 82.
>
> I'm not saying that the 85 isn't better in many ways than the 82, I'm just
> trying to suggest that the 82 is not an inferior calculator.  More
> importantly, they are different calculators.  The TI-80 is an inferior
> calculator.
>
> -- JBD
>


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