Well, has anyone ever tried UNDERCLOCKING a calculator? I know there was a program for the 86 which slowed the bastard way the hell down, but has anyone actually lowered the processing speed of their calculator through a hardware modification? Wouldn't that RULE? Heheheheh, especially if you did it to your buddy's calculator and they had a big test coming up in Calculus....

HA, underclocking, shmunderschocolating... if you are going to go through the trouble of underclocking the calc, why not just flip the screen upside down and backwards (if it is translucent...) or jus upside down... especially before the yock's physics final, and one someone's 92+... not to name any names *cough*CASE*cough*... but, while were at it, why not just make an EMULATOR for the TI-25 to run on the 92+????? that's even worse!

HA, Yock Schmock... I'd be worried without the fabled references. Maybe I should buy a TI-25 for that exam, does anyone know how much memory that thing has? :) Oh well, I'm going back to the underground experimentation in my basement... you think a cold fusion reactor for a power source to my calculator would be adequate enough to give me power for the entire *supposed* 8 hour long final? If not then I guess it's back to the drawing boards for me.

Actually, I did succeed in underclocking my TI-83 (post this in the news _PUUULEEEEZ_). Here's what I done:

1) Purchase a TI-83.
2) Love it.
3) Love the games you put on it.
4) Play the games way too much.
5) Carry the calculator year round (even if you don't have a math class that semester) in the front pocket of your backpack.
6) Develop the odd habit of throwing your backpack over your head, to land right on the front of the backpack, on your calculator.
7) In class one day, drop the calculator on the floor from a height of say, 3 feet.

I followed these steps over a period of about a year and a half, and after the completion of step 7, it was magically slower. Painfully slow. I never figured out what was wrong with it, and probably never will, because 1 to 2 weeks later, it died completely. Won't turn on at all. Anyway, this really did happen, and gave me an excuse to buy an 86 (can't get the 89, need to use my calc on the ACT), which is much better anyway.

-David

I applied step 7 eight after i completed payment on my 83 and instead of magicaly slower it turned on once more as if to say goodbye and never turned on again. JAMAL!!!!!!!!

ha ha..
Sorry, just had to laugh at this....

Someone has way too much free time...

ha ha.

>Someone has way too much free time...

Yeah, but look at all the time he's saved by overclocking his calc!
;)

-chrisremo

Yeah, really. He'll make up for the time spent in only, say, ten trillion years. And from then on, he'll be gaining time on every computation and laughing his ass off at all us losers who have slower, weaker TI-25s.

This is one of the worst things I have ever seen on this site for a very long time. Several months ago (or at least it seems like several months ago) Macross Software had a link to this article. The articale on 3DW is by no means recent, and I truly think credit needs to be given to Macross since Jason might have picked it up from their page. I do not know where jason might have come accross the article, but I would bet dollars to doughnuts it was from Macross. But this is slightly off my main point. While it does qualify to be in the news section since it deals with a Texas Instrument's calculator, I think if the TI-25 can get a front page article, why does it not have a section under the calculator info section? I also do not see a section in the 'Buy and Sell' for the TI-25. I also do not see a hosted site regarding the TI-25. While I do not think this is bias against the TI-25, I do think that before one of the staff members decides to post a news article at their "sole and final discretion", that member would think 3 more times whether that article really deserves to be posted.

Jean Vásquez

I think it was neat that someone used some free time to try to overclock a scientific calculator. It's a whole lot better than some of these fake news articles *cough*Next 100 Years*coughcough* :) It gets front page news because ... um, it's a slow news day, and they had nothing better to do? :P

BTW, since this is a _graphing_ calculator site, it'd be silly to put something about a TI-25 on ticalc.org. What other than math can you do on it?

Well, you could play those "word games" that you did way back in fifth grade. Where you type in "0.7734", and when you turn it upside down it says "hELLO"... Other than that, I don think you could have much fun with it.

-Fil

Ah, yes...the joy I had playing those "games" on 8-digit calculators before I knew about TI graphing calcs. I first learned about them when my 4th grade teacher (no, I'm not in 4th grade; this was years ago) passed out the calcs on a slow day and would be like, "OK, it is weightless, you can see it and if you put it in a barrel it will make the barrel
lighter...what is it? For the answer, type in '3704' on your calculator and turn it upside down"...and other riddles like that. I was amazed. :-)

Try
-5318008: What is Pamela Anderson missing some of?
-37047734: What is school like?

or if the calculator did hexadecimal you could type "A55FACE". That was always fun.

Oh yea, you could also say "DEADBEEF"

Well.. this site is about Texas Instrument graphing calculators, so, thats why the TI-25 is not mentioned in the calculator section or the buy and sell section. And for them to be able to post it.. well I look at it as their site, so they can post whatever they want, its a good laugh, I thought it was kind of funny, there wasn't any need for you to start complaining that the calculator they mentioned isn't in the calculator section or the buy and sell. You guys ask to much of these guys for them to be doing this stuff for free.. the webmasters and the programmers.

You mentioned it yourself, the site is about graphing calculators. So the article does not belong in the first place. This site roughly follows the same strategy as /. ; which means that news articles are aimed at the target audience. If /. started posting news on how W2k will be better than anything ever GPL'ed or something along those lines, they would be contradicting themselves. The target audience of ticalc.org is the user who uses graphing calculators. So asking the staff members to post articles that are targeted to their audience is not asking for alot, for that is what they are used to doing and what they have done in the past frequently. And as far as you saying that "you guys ask to[o] much of [...] the webmasters and the programmers", I feel you have reached the wrong audience. The only people that I know that ask too much of the experienced community are the newbies who do not know anything but want everything and think they can code anything. I have never heard someone who has been involved in the communiy for a while ask much of anything to the webmasters and progammers. The newbies want to know how to program, they expect that one tells them everything from the A to the Z on how to do it, and heaven forbid that you say something that s/he cannot understand, for then they say that the experienced people do not even take time to help them. So back to my original post, the news article did not reached its intended audience that this site has. The news article may have been funny or interesting, but it had already been reported elsewhere several months ago, and maybe that source also needed to be given credit.

No, your missing my main point. This is their site, they have the right to post whatever they want, and you have no right to tell them otherwise. Your complaining about a stupid issue. So what if the TI-25 isn't a graphing calculator, so what if the TI-25 is mentioned in a news article, but isn't mentioned in the calculator or buy and sell section of the site. Just because a site is about a certain topic, doesn't mean the webmasters can't post something a little out of that topic.

Hmmmm...
I find it funny in itself that you even _care_ that much about this... Calm down, dude
-chrisremo

I agree.

Just relax and enjoy the humor. And if you don't care about the article, don't load the article page. ticalc.org isn't exactly a site upon which the fate of millions depend. So just calm down and laugh a little, or--alternatively--go away.

Geez, lighten up! You say, "I think if the TI-25 can get a front page article, why does it not have a section under the calculator info section?" So what?? It would be _pointless_ to have a TI-25 section, and I realize you were not saying that is needed, but rather that the article doesn't deserve to be on the front page because there is no section. Who cares?? There aren't any rules ("Before thou canst put up a front page article, thou must checketh to see if a related calculator page existeth") about posting news articles.

Had they posted this and failed to mention that TI had created a graphing calculator witht the power and speed of a Apple G4 (no PC/Mac arguments, please :) ) then that would be a different story. But since they had no other news how does this hurt? It was a joke for heaven's sake, what's wrong with that?

As far as Nick knew, he HAD posted the source. You say above that only newbies expect too much, while you expect Nick to know AND remember everything that has happened since ARPANET began in 1969. Give them a BREAK and laugh a little!!!

Smile,
Nick Chaves

That news article was totally uncalled for. Besides all of the other reasons against posting it, That stupid calculator was overclocked such a small amount it isn't even worth mentioning. Does someone write a story in the paper that his old 486 at 25 Mhz ran 26 Mhz? And at a website only about Pentiums and higher? I don't think so. And this directly relates to ticalc.org's problem. I think that we as the public ought to voice our opinion. That article was WAY WAY off topic, insignificant, and stupid. It has no value to anyone as a piece of information worth keeping. This comment may be deleted because "Messages containing...criticisms of 'newsworthiness' will generally be deleted." I am aware of this, and I think Nick should really give it some thought: Is this article really worth posting? Will it benefit the TI community? Is it a significant news story? Is it really new? Or has it been around for a long time? I think I have made myself clear. Let the public decide: if the public thinks the news story was "inappropriate", or "pointless", then let it be deleted.

-Bob Maresh

He doesn't have to ask himself those questions.. because this is his site.. he can put anything he wants on it.

ahh yes, the naysayers rear their ugly heads...

It's funny when you think about it...

The article is meant to be funny...

These guys get the exact opposite reaction...

They ask why a scientific calculator gets a front-page article when this is a graphing calculator site...

They know that everybody knows this is a graphing calculator site, and that the news article was meant only to up a slow week (and to be humorous, I quite enjoyed it)...

Yet they feel it's their place to point to everybody who already knows its a joke that it shouldn't be on the front page because it isn't a graphing calculator (another fact all of us yaysayers already know)...

To the naysayers, I say, if you don't find it funny, do not feel it is your God-given duty to point out the evils of a scientific calculator on the front page of a *gasp* graphing calculator site. Frankly, there are more pressing matters in the world than what kind of calculator makes the front page of a calculator site...

If you don't having anything nice to say, don't say anything at all...

Try these questions instead:

Is this something most people will enjoy reading? (yes)

Will this hurt anyone or cause any disturbance other than riling up the idiots? (no)

Does this have to do with TI calculators? (yes)

Is ticalc.org personally responsible to Robert Maresh? (no)

Does it really matter if the article is off-topic from the main subject of the site? (no)

Can people who are too anal to accept a humorous article go somewhere else to get their undiluted graphing-only calc news? (yes)

I might add the public (who, in actuality, should have no say in the matter) seems to enjoy this article, so I don't know what you hope to gain by putting it to some kind popular vote.

Oh, come on, laugh a little. I think that if it's funny, it deservs the front page. Who cares about the TI-25, it could be a microwave for all I care (Imagine that: "Stand back everyone. Way back!"), so why NOT give everyone a little laugh?