Re: Which TI does your school require
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In <mtuley.226.000C493C@jeffco.k12.co.us> mtuley@jeffco.k12.co.us (Matt
Tuley) writes:
>
>In article <4u3fin$34b@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>
scwolfe@ix.netcom.com(Daniel Wolfe) writes:
>>From: scwolfe@ix.netcom.com(Daniel Wolfe)
>>Subject: Re: Which TI does your school require
>>Date: 5 Aug 1996 00:34:31 GMT
>
>>In <3204DF04.1944@tenet.edu> Richard Taylor <rtaylor@tenet.edu>
writes:
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>>>
>>>And there is just no reason to buy a TI-82; it's replacement, the
>>>TI-83, is so superior that the 82 shouldn't even be considered.
>
>>I can think of one good reason: cost. Check the price comparison at
>>ticalc.org...But for students, who may
>>want to save their money for other things, while the 83 is, as you
say,
>>"superior", is it really necessary to spend the extra money?
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>Well, checking ticalc.org shows the 83 to have an _MSRP_ of $125,
which is
>indeed quite a bit more than the 82.
>
>However, nobody ever sells anything for the MSRP, and the 83 will
likely have
>a STREET PRICE of maybe $5 or $10 more than the 82.
>
>Yeah, I think school kids (or more likely, school kids' parents) will
be able
>to afford that.
>
>Matt Tuley
>mtuley@jeffco.k12.co.us
>
>
Sorry for saying the 83 costs what ticalc.org said it costs. I have an
82 and 92, and while I would like an 83, I haven't been shopping for
one, so the only price I looked at was from the ticalc.org project.
-DAN Wolfe
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