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| IanB:
--- Quote from: MikeK on April 27, 2012, 10:51:21 pm ---I have two TI-36X. --- End quote --- Ooh. I like the look of that calculator. Simple, functional, solar powered, no algebraic logic crap. I'm gonna get one. I don't need one, but what the heck... I have one of the new HP-15c calculators. It is nice, and enormously powerful. It can do linear algebra, and complex arithmetic, and linear algebra with complex numbers (!), and it is programmable. Unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a keypad lottery. Many people find a defective key or two that doesn't quite work right. On mine it is the sin key. Do you really want the hassle of returning it for a replacement that might, or might not, be an improvement? Apart from that it is a nice calculator. |
| MikeK:
The new TI-36X is different. You can probably check it out at Target and such. The ones I have are the old version. Black...The color calculators should be. :) You can get the old ones on eBay for under $10. It only does 8-bit binary, just so you know. |
| Kilroy:
I have the new TI-36x...the so called "Pro" version. Why on earth do manufacturers tack "Pro" on the product name...it seems precisely like the sort of silly thing one would resort to if you intended to sell rubbish to naive consumers. Anyway, it is a pretty fair calculator for those times you need something with more moxy than your average calculator but not necessarily the raw processing power, and subsequently more complex interface, of the top flight HP or TI graphing machines. I'd say it probably does what you most often need a scientific calculator to do and manages to keep the interface fairly fast and accessible. And, it's black. So you just know it's for "serious users". :) |
| Robreeves:
Abybody use one of these? I admit I blew my annual toy budget on this, but it is a magnificent mechanism |
| IanB:
--- Quote from: MikeK on April 28, 2012, 12:36:49 am ---The new TI-36X is different. You can probably check it out at Target and such. The ones I have are the old version. Black...The color calculators should be. :) You can get the old ones on eBay for under $10. It only does 8-bit binary, just so you know. --- End quote --- Turns out I already have a TI-30XA. I thought it looked familiar. No need to buy another I suppose. |
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