I can hardly write. We've been together for almost 15 years, and he fails me now?
Yes, I am sad to report than my TI-86 let me down today. The decimal button stopped working!
I'm not sure how I can move on from my lovely 86. Should I simply buy another (can I even find one anymore?) or is it time to move on to another model?
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:( I have a TI-86 too for about 10 years now, it has a comfortable home (somewhere in my apt) and every once in awhile I come across it. The newer calculators must be pretty awesome.
RIP TI-86
How sad! I used my TI-86 in the lab a few years ago, spilled some saline on the screen, and the screen died on me. Alas!
You call yourself a fucking scientist, and you use a calculator with fucking parentheses???? Grow up and get a motherfucking real calculator with RPN.
Scientist and Andrew: Word! 86ers unite!
Hugs and kisses, CPPy! Love ya!
Ah, you do know that to "86" something is to get rid of it?
What I always find intriguing about that family of calculators is that they are based on a chip made in 1976, the Z80. Its cpu design is older than you are!
Ironically, given your reference to Word, I think the first true word processor I used (WordStar) ran on a CP/M system that was built on a Z80 rather than an Intel 8080. That means you should have been able to run a word processor on your TI calculator.
(WordStar, which predates M$ Word, was essentially a markup language so I found HTML trivial to pick up when it came along.)
Yes, thus I might be 86ing my 86. So sad.
Well, my students certainly have put enough TEXT into their calculators to wish they were running a word processor on it!
TI-86? I still use "Old Faithful", my TI-82 from junior high, and I don't know what I'd do if he died! RIP TI-86.
Your students probably just download the crib cards from TI. I was wondering if your problem was that you couldn't do unit conversions without it. ;-) Even if you can, you might like to know that there is a Casio that has both input and output with symbolic SI prefixes instead of powers of ten.
Jacqueline - Is the TI-82 the one that knows about the analytic continuation of the sine function? See if it gives an imaginary number for the inverse sine of something like 2.
Doctor Pion - I don't think so, it just give me an error when I take the inverse sign of 2.
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