Re: TI-H: Come on you guys, no more talk of cheating


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Re: TI-H: Come on you guys, no more talk of cheating



I am not for cheating. I was telling Zenon that any kind of link would not
work for cheating.  I agree completely with Eric, let's end the talk of
cheating.


At 05:20 PM 11/5/96 -0800, Eric Barker wrote:


>James Sulak wrote:
>> 
>> >Because that would make it look suspicious in a test wouldn't it?  Also,
>> >you can't network calcs together this way...
>> 
>> Since there is very limited space inside the TI-8x series (at least the 85),
>> the only way to make a radio or IR link that I can see is a small external
>> box, which would also look suspicious...
>
>Come on people, you're too worried about being suspicious.  Are you 
>prepared to stoop low enough to actually cheat on a test with one of 
>these things?  Come on, a teacher will find out some day and then no one 
>will be able to use them in your school, they may even make strict 
>guidlines about the calculators themselves.  Let's not make this as a 
>cheater and something you have to hide, a life of secrecy is no life at 
>all.  Lets make a legal unit that could really be useful, maybe even 
>productive that the teachers won't be "suspicious" of.  I have no 
>problem with a small box that would hook up to the calc.  Let's 
>completely drop all subjects of cheating on tests.  This is a study and 
>game tool, except for the TI-OS which we don't talk much about.
>
>Eric Barker




James Sulak
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