Re: HP48 vs TI-92
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i gotta say 2 things......
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:05:56 -0500, "Lamari, Matthew"
<mlamari@origin.ea.com> wrote:
>Darrel Wilson wrote:
>> > The thing that kills it for me is you can't use it on any tests! QWERTY
>> keyboard. If they allowed those, I'd take a pentium 150 laptop with Maple,
>> Mathematica, Derive, Excel, Lotus, a programming language (for those
>> annoying problems you know how to solve, but not quickly...thus a computer)
what if the teacher asks you to show work? ;)
>> and whatever other stuff I could think of! I'd save the money to get a
>> TI-92 along with my HP-48GX if it didn't have that darn
>> keyboard....Regards,
>>
>> darrel_wilson@bendnet.com
>
>When I was at university (last year) in OZ, you had to write down the
>make and model of your calculator, and NOTHING PROGRAMMABLE was
>allowed. I heard that this year they were a bit more lax on this; but
>that HP48 with its big screen would, upon a glance, stand out. I heard
BIG SCREEN?????? That's a good one! ;) eek
eek@guess.net
>this was getting lax as their list of valid calculators was being
>ignored as it was 10 years out of date; but I'm sure someone would
>recognize the Ferrarri and the Lamborghini of pocketsized engineering
>hardware.
>
>I am surprised as people here are allowed to take programmable
>calculators into tests, as anything with RAM I could rack up with so
>much info that passing would be impossible!!
>
>Matthew "My other calculator is a piece of s__t too" Lamari
>
>Comments here are my own, not my company's.
>
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