Re: Error trapping on TI-85? (fwd)
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Re: Error trapping on TI-85? (fwd)
Your arguments are specious, I'm afraid.
The TRS-80 series had an "ON ERROR GOTO" statement in its BASIC
interpreter 15 years ago.
And if you are in fact a computer science teacher, you already know that
error trapping consumes no CPU cycles or space in one's program unless it
is used -- in which case it is often vital.
I am preparing to return the TI-85 we purchased for testing. TI has not
responded with any information or help, and TI's support line refused to
put me directly in touch with an executive with product management
responsibility. Instead, they took a number and never returned the call.
This behavior is on a par with the poor marketing and customer relations
skills TI exhibited at the time when the TRS-80 was manufactured. I'd hoped
they had improved since that time.
Unless TI returns my call by the close of business today, they will lose my
client as a customer. This will means that they've blown a chance to bid
on a contract for at least 1,000 units -- and probably several times that
in the future. Them's big bucks.
Fortunately, it looks as if both Casio and Franklin will be more
cooperative and responsive.
--Brett Glass
----- Original Message -----
Loss of percision? 2nd-cleat allows you to adjust the Target/Tolerences
But I would like to point the ti-8x serials have the same CPU chip that
was in circa 1980 TRS-80, in my computer day back then I don;t remeber
error check as a major concern. I became a large concern in the late 80s
when we had machines with resources to dedicate some programs size and CPU
cycles to input checking and error correction....
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Charles Slaustas - Comp Sci
CBS@EAGLE.IBC.EDU
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