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swoll1980
September 5th, 2008, 02:52 AM
This thing is really cool. On the box it says you can put flash apps, and even a new OS on it. I was wondering exactly what this thing is capable of. I know it's worth more than $20 so I figured I'd buy it, and it was from a church thrift store, so it goes to a good cause. Now I just have to figure out what I'm going to do with it. It has a usb cable that hooks up to the computer. I'm not a scientist, so I have to find other cool things to do with it.
damis648
September 5th, 2008, 02:55 AM
You can download Programs or Applications (different things), but there is no OS beside the official OS that can be installed. As far as I know, nobody has written one. But I have a ti-84 Plus Silver for school, and it is pretty sweet.
Newuser1111
September 5th, 2008, 03:53 AM
You can download Programs or Applications (different things), but there is no OS beside the official OS that can be installed. As far as I know, nobody has written one. But I have a ti-84 Plus Silver for school, and it is pretty sweet.People have made OS's for the 84+,
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/os/
Edit: There's a new one! The last time I looked, there was only 2.
Edit: And someone's trying to put Linux on 89/92+.

Other files for other calcs:
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/
TBOL3
September 5th, 2008, 04:11 AM
Sweet, I have an 89, who is trying to put linux on it?

BTW, $20 is a good price, good job.
Giant Speck
September 5th, 2008, 04:25 AM
The 92+ and Voyager 200 are better, in my opinion, mostly because of the QWERTY keyboard.

I want to try the new TI-nspire, but since I don't have any real need for it, I'm not going to shell out more than a hundred dollars for it.
Newuser1111
September 5th, 2008, 04:33 AM
Sweet, I have an 89, who is trying to put linux on it?

BTW, $20 is a good price, good job.Nevermind, I just noticed that that's old news.(6 June 2000)

I did find another,
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/ss/454/45442.gif (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/336/33685.html)
But it's not really Linux, like the other one was supposed to be. It just looks like it.
TBOL3
September 5th, 2008, 04:33 AM
I like the n-spire, but it didn't come out until I bought my calculater. The Voyager is a better machine, but it's allowed on no tests that I'm aware of. In fact, the 89 is only allowed on a few tests as well.
swoll1980
September 5th, 2008, 05:29 PM
People have made OS's for the 84+,
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/os/
Edit: There's a new one! The last time I looked, there was only 2.
Edit: And someone's trying to put Linux on 89/92+.

Other files for other calcs:
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/

These wouldn't work on the TI-89 titanium then? Would they?
Giant Speck
September 5th, 2008, 06:02 PM
These wouldn't work on the TI-89 titanium then? Would they?

Any program that runs on a TI-89 will run on a TI-89 Titanium. I'm pretty sure they also make emulator programs to port TI-83 and TI-84 programs to TI-89s.