[A83] Re: Printed sdk83guide.pdf
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[A83] Re: Printed sdk83guide.pdf
If I remember correctly, TI does sell a printed version in their online
store. It's $50 I believe.
Michael Vincent
Detached Solutions - www.detacheds.com
Radical Software - www.radicalsoft.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 10:38 PM
Subject: [A83] Re: Printed sdk83guide.pdf
>
> Hmm, maybe I should put my copy up on ebay :)
>
> I got one for free from TI a couple of years ago along with a TI-83+ for
> being part of the SDK beta team. You might try calling TI and see if
> they offer printed versions.
>
> I just dug around in my closet and found the box. The last page number
> is 556. The footer at the bottom has "Not for Distribution" underlined
> in bold in the middle, and on the right it is labeled "Beta Version
> August 11, 1999". The front cover labels it "Revision 0.2". Yes, I
> know I'm not using proper grammer by not placing the last punctuation
> symbol inside the quotes, but according to the jargon file, that's
> normal :)
>
> Even when I did a little 83+ programming, I don't think I used the
> printed documentation. To me, it's much easier to have it all online,
> where it's indexed and searchable. It's faster to type something in and
> go to immediately, or just click on it, rather than finding the proper
> page. Sure, for some things books are good, and whenever I have easy
> access to a printer, my desk seems to be cluttered with random printouts
> from whatever I'm programming. But in general, for me, printed API
> documentation is not usually useful, if it is available online in a
> usable format. And when it's online, it tends to be more up to date.
>
> That said, I miss the days when programs actually came with
> documenation. Does anyone remember when getting a compiler meant
> getting a stack of books big enough to fill half a shelf on a bookcase?
> Maybe it keeps software prices down, but it also makes a lot of
> companies lazy. I would have really liked printed books for Watcom
> C/C++, but the printed books cost more than the compiler.
>
> I absolutely despise documentation coming in only PDF format. If you
> want to print it, then it's great. Otherwise, it's next to worthless.
> HTML documenation is much easier to use online.
>
> > Where did you get that printed? I got mine printed and the lowest price
I
> > could find for the 600 some pages was about 50 dollars.
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