Re: TIB: Games=pointless

To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TIB: Games=pointless
From: Jeff Glover <jglover@geocities.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 21:57:50 -0500
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How many portable gaming systems are there that are programable for games
and math operations?  After using a program you made for math on a test you
can then play games when waiting for everyone else to finish.  If some one
buys a calc just for games that's there problem since they are not using
the calc to its fullest potentional.

At 09:02 PM 8/27/70 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> Does anyone really NEED games?
>
>I am ever so glad that someone holds a point of view like my own!  If 
>you buy the calculator, you should be using it for math or science, 
>not as a gameboy/calculator hybrid.  If you want games, get a 
>nintendo.  There are people at my school who buy 92's and 86's 
>STRICTLY so that they can play games...that sickens me.
>
>-- 
>
>Phil Ratzsch
>
>pratzsch@worldnet.att.net
>
>_____________________________________
>I closed me eyes and all I see
>Are the few, the proud surrouding me.
>A secret world inside its own
>That only those inside have known.
>The pride of being so elite,
>The challenge one day I will meet.
>I quickly realize as I rise
>The obstacle before my eyes.
>But in my sleep I have seen
>That I will be a good Marine.
>_____________________________________
>
>Taken from "Leatherneck" magazine
>Recieved from Major R. Wendel
>On June 12,1998, the day of my enlistment.
>
>DAYS TO BOOT CAMP:217
>
>
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Jeff Glover
jglover@geocities.com
http://jglover.home.ml.org

References:

Re: TIB: Hello?

From: Cliff320@aol.com

TIB: Games=pointless

From: Phil Ratzsch <pratzsch@worldnet.att.net>