[ale] DIY Graphing Calculator Is Built From Open Source Hardware

jcpilman at gmail.com jcpilman at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 09:57:45 EDT 2010


I still have my TI-994a. I keep it around for the nostalgic games.  I
guess when you brought yours to class you sat by the wall to plug it
in and you also brought a TV so you could see the output.
...John

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep. That's the correct one. My memory has apparently also gone the way of
> the batteries in that thing...
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Alright Jim,
>>
>> You made me google the TI-99-4a to see what it was.
>>
>> I'm only finding old computers, not a behemoth of a calculator.
>>
>> (I had a TI-59 back in highschool:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59  Is that what you meant?)
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I eventually disposed of my TI-99-4a card programmable after I
>> > discovered
>> > the rechargeable battery pack had leaked and no more were available. I
>> > had
>> > one of the engineering modules for it as well.
>> >
>> > I was _THE_ alpha nerd in high school with that behemoth!
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri August 6 2010, dude-aaron-omy wrote:
>> >> > My daughter is starting graduate school in Public Health Advocacy
>> >> > at Columbia University this fall.  Apparently this will involve some
>> >> > statistics classes and she just called home to ask if we can hunt
>> >> > down the TI-83 that is buried somewhere in the piles of stuff in
>> >> > her old room.
>> >>
>> >> I have a TI-81 right here in my hands... 4 dead batteries that have
>> >> probably
>> >> been in there for 10 years..
>> >>
>>
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