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As far as infrared communication, they didn't have problems with HP48 like 20-some years ago. i think the rationale was that it only allows limited short range
by unsignedint 6y ago
As far as infrared communication, they didn't have problems with HP48 like 20-some years ago. i think the rationale was that it only allows limited short range communication, thus was not much of the concern.
Though, I'm curious why some of those "disallowed features" exist, particularly for keyboard and touch input...
- tinus_hn 6y agoThey probably know infrared never works anyway
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- jedieaston 6y agoThey don’t want you to write down full length questions into the calculator for taking out of the test site. It’s just hard enough to type a sentence on the TI-84 that nobody would bother, but a qwerty keyboard that you could touch type on would be a different story.
- BoorishBears 6y ago> It’s just hard enough to type a sentence on the TI-84 that nobody would bother Are you sure about that...
- MereInterest 6y agoAs someone whose first experience programming was in writing a text-based adventure game on the TI-83, I beg to differ.
- dharmab 6y agoWhen I was a student, every middle school student with a TI-83+ was keeping notes in the BASIC editor, and the future programmers were all automating their work in BASIC. Teachers started wiping calculators before exams, and kids started backing up their files to the calculator's ROM to work around it. Remember, this was the age of T9 typing, we weren't gonna let the lack of a keyboard stop us...
- jimktrains2 6y agoI always found notes and books for open book tests to just make things harder. Sure, a single well made cheat sheat could be invaluable, but in general if you didn't know the material nothing was going to help you if you had to show work, which you do on all non-bubble-sheet exams.
- dharmab 6y agoMy age might be showing, but tests back then were rarely open book and largely based around memorization and essay writing.
- jimktrains2 6y agoI've only ever had a handful of open book tests in my life, but I just mean that even when you're _allowed_ aids, they're not actually useful unless you have some base understanding anyway.