Re: TI newsgroup active?


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Re: TI newsgroup active?



e96nbr@jordgubbe.efd.lth.se (Niklas Brunlid) wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:36:18 GMT, jonathanchum@mindspring.com
>(Jonathan Chum) wrote:
>
>>I have subscribed to this newsgroup for over 4 months now and noticed
>>something. This newsgroup isn't much active overall. There is only
>>about 10 posts everyday while the Hp48 newsgroup(comp.sys.hp48) gets
>>25-30 posts. Much of my teachers in High school and elementary uses
>>TI's and the school even bought a classroom size full of TI-82's. Hp
>>doesn't advertise much and haven't came out with a new calculator for
>>4 years now. There cpu is 10 years old and slower than of TI's. On the
>>Hp newgroup people post about assembly language problems and linking
>>and rom dumping problems. They also post about upcoming programs
>>that's gonna rock Hp48 world. Now on the TI side, there have a couple
>>of post that doesn't even interest me one bit. Why is that? Is it that
>>most people don't know that a TI group even exist therefore don't post
>>about upcoming programs and other material that may interest people?
>>
>>Xanthis alias Jonathan Chum
>
>I think most of the programmers post on their calcs' respective
>mailing lists on ticalc.org instead, like the Assembly-8x or
>Assembly-92 lists. But then I don't know if the HP calcs have
>something similar...
>
>
>Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
>PQF Quote follows:
>
>The figures the telescope was producing were all that was left of an
>exploding star twenty million years ago. A billion small rubbery things on
>two planets who had been getting on with life in a quiet sort of way had
>been totally destroyed, but they were certainly helping Adrian get his
>Ph.D. and, who knows, they might have thought it all worthwhile if anyone
>had asked them.
>        -- (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead)

I never did check out the Assembly lists at www.ticalc.org. I only
found 3 newgroups and this was the most active, but I wished people
would post to a newgroup than to a list server. Do you agree?


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