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Presumably the board hopes he identifies/designates the successor to pursue a new golden age for TI.

guernicle 8y ago
The dream of a durable, programmable graphing calculator with a high-resolution AMOLED display with solid graphics processing, touch screen as pointing device, and hard QWERTY keyboard with no other major frills (no network interfaces, no android, no app stores or apps, thus facillitating a subversive, loyal ROM underground scene), for less than $50 USD may yet come true.
- macintux 8y ago
  It wouldn’t be RPN so it might as well not exist.
- nsxwolf 8y ago
  As long as it runs on a Z80 I’m on board.
TheRealPomax 8y ago
Can we at least acknowledge that charging $150 for a calculator is no longer in line with "golden age" and more with "because we can"? In terms of their chips, TI is fantastic. But the part of them that every kid and student sees can do with a fixin' uppin'
- thaumasiotes 8y ago
  You can get equivalent and superior calculating software for free. What do you want TI to fix up? The $150 you pay for a College Board certified calculator goes entirely towards the ability to use it on a College Board test without being considered a cheater. If you want to lower that cost, there's always the self-service approach -- produce $50 Android phones with calculator software preinstalled and the phone and wifi connectivity ripped out. Then get the College Board to certify your calculator. You can have TI's market share, if you can get the certification.
  - berti 8y ago
    Are Casio not an option? They're not cheap, but they're cheaper.
  - trendia 8y ago
    Sounds like NumWorks [0] [0] https://www.numworks.com/ https://www.numworks.com/
    - saagarjha 8y ago
      Except NumWorks is $100.
- bombledmonk 8y ago
  Their Education division is low single digit percentage points of TI's business. While it almost certainly has huge margins it's up in the air as to whether it's more bullet point on a slide internally.

The dream of a durable, programmable graphing calculator with a high-resolution AMOLED display with solid graphics processing, touch screen as pointing device, and hard QWERTY keyboard with no other major frills (no network interfaces, no android, no app stores or apps, thus facillitating a subversive, loyal ROM underground scene), for less than $50 USD may yet come true.

macintux 8y ago
It wouldn’t be RPN so it might as well not exist.
nsxwolf 8y ago
As long as it runs on a Z80 I’m on board.

TheRealPomax 8y ago

Can we at least acknowledge that charging $150 for a calculator is no longer in line with "golden age" and more with "because we can"? In terms of their chips, TI is fantastic. But the part of them that every kid and student sees can do with a fixin' uppin'

thaumasiotes 8y ago
You can get equivalent and superior calculating software for free. What do you want TI to fix up? The $150 you pay for a College Board certified calculator goes entirely towards the ability to use it on a College Board test without being considered a cheater. If you want to lower that cost, there's always the self-service approach -- produce $50 Android phones with calculator software preinstalled and the phone and wifi connectivity ripped out. Then get the College Board to certify your calculator. You can have TI's market share, if you can get the certification.
- berti 8y ago
  Are Casio not an option? They're not cheap, but they're cheaper.
- trendia 8y ago
  Sounds like NumWorks [0] [0] https://www.numworks.com/ https://www.numworks.com/
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    Except NumWorks is $100.
bombledmonk 8y ago
Their Education division is low single digit percentage points of TI's business. While it almost certainly has huge margins it's up in the air as to whether it's more bullet point on a slide internally.