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> I also find it interesting how relatively little attention is given to the advantage of tactile buttons If I remember correctly, while in programming mode, a
by bendykstra 11y ago
> I also find it interesting how relatively little attention is given to the advantage of tactile buttons
If I remember correctly, while in programming mode, almost all TI-BASIC keywords could be input by pressing a menu button followed by a number. You could be very efficient once you learned the combinations. By the time I started high school, I had learned the menus well enough that I was writing games in class while concealing the calculator under the desk. (Of course, as I found out later, my teachers weren't fooled for a second.)
- Sanddancer 11y agoExactly. Everything in TI basic, least on the 82 I had way back in the day, is a keyword that you can pull in from a menu. Because of this, there was no need to remember what that function was named. Because of that, it was trivial to write all those little functions that just might be on the test, plus all those games and other diversions. I mean, what's a calculator without a game of craps on it?