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How is that possible? I wouldn’t have been able to function without it in school (20 years ago). But we also didn’t have iPhones.

by cj 5mo ago

badc0ffee 5mo ago
(Edit: I am assuming you were asking how it's possible I didn't use it, not how it's possible that people were copying programs onto their calculators.) I don't know. It's been too long. We must have done graphing on paper. I don't remember a lot of coursework in math that required me to produce a decimal value. For example, we wanted √2 instead of 1.414. In physics, I think we used regular calculators. I used to be bewildered at my parents not remembering certain things from high school. But, now I'm living it :).
billxreynolds 5mo ago
Back in the mid-90's we had a TI version of sneakernet where you would copy programs from one student on to your TI-85 via a link cable; this is how I got Tetris back in the day. I assume OP did the same.
- badc0ffee 5mo ago
  IIRC there was a way to connect the TI-85 to your serial port and use some Windows or DOS software to copy files onto it. (Everyone's PC still had at least one serial port on it back then).
- jasonfarnon 5mo ago
  Was it that only the 85 could connect to a com port, but then you could connect the 85 to the 82/83? I seem to remember pleading with the one kid with an 85 (who didn't even care about games).
  - LocalH 5mo ago
    The 82 also had a com port I don't remember if you could connect an 82 to an 85, but I do remember you could connect it to a PC as well over serial
  - theodric 5mo ago
    I chopped my TI-83 link cable in half and wired it to the parallel port, like this: http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~aw4/ti85.html http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~aw4/ti85.html and this: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001444/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2242/cal.html https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001444/http://www.geocit...

How is that possible? I wouldn’t have been able to function without it in school (20 years ago). But we also didn’t have iPhones.

by cj 5mo ago

How is that possible? I wouldn’t have been able to function without it in school (20 years ago). But we also didn’t have iPhones.

badc0ffee 5mo ago

(Edit: I am assuming you were asking how it's possible I didn't use it, not how it's possible that people were copying programs onto their calculators.) I don't know. It's been too long. We must have done graphing on paper. I don't remember a lot of coursework in math that required me to produce a decimal value. For example, we wanted √2 instead of 1.414. In physics, I think we used regular calculators. I used to be bewildered at my parents not remembering certain things from high school. But, now I'm living it :).

billxreynolds 5mo ago

Back in the mid-90's we had a TI version of sneakernet where you would copy programs from one student on to your TI-85 via a link cable; this is how I got Tetris back in the day. I assume OP did the same.

badc0ffee 5mo ago
IIRC there was a way to connect the TI-85 to your serial port and use some Windows or DOS software to copy files onto it. (Everyone's PC still had at least one serial port on it back then).
jasonfarnon 5mo ago
Was it that only the 85 could connect to a com port, but then you could connect the 85 to the 82/83? I seem to remember pleading with the one kid with an 85 (who didn't even care about games).
- LocalH 5mo ago
  The 82 also had a com port I don't remember if you could connect an 82 to an 85, but I do remember you could connect it to a PC as well over serial
- theodric 5mo ago
  I chopped my TI-83 link cable in half and wired it to the parallel port, like this: http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~aw4/ti85.html http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~aw4/ti85.html and this: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001444/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2242/cal.html https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001444/http://www.geocit...