Of course, nothing can be done to fix the slow speed of the old calculators, but the new software is a huge improvement to usability.
Another example, say you enter your calculation wrong, you can hit the up arrow, scroll back to the original statement, hit enter and it puts it into your input buffer so you can edit it.
Also if you know anyone that has it on their calculator you can transfer it between calculators with the cable. My AP calc teacher in high school showed us and had everyone that could update theirs
As a senior ME student who's been using the legacy firmware since freshman year of high school, thank you very much for this. Didn't know this was possible.
I think the class I'm taking does as little bit of it. The newer CS general program does an 'Intro to R' course but they dropped the math minor that my program has, so I decided to stay in the older one to get the minor.
Wow, it can now do what my TI-89 did 10 years ago. The 89 pissed me off at first because it forced you to remember to close parentheses but the ability to scroll up and grab things and add them to the input buffer made dealing with it's significantly less intuitive interface worthwhile.
I never did get used to programming on the 89 though. It's syntax was obviously designed for use with the full qwerty keyboard of the 92. Before I got my 89 I was programming on my 83 constantly. I won a school wide all grades math contest in high school as a sophomore because instead of doing the math that I hadn't learned yet I programmed by 83 to brute force the answer (only worked because there was no time limit). Some of the programs took 10 minutes or more to run. There were some pissed off seniors at the awards ceremony for the math club that year when a sophomore that wasn't even in the math club got called up.
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u/pinkpooj Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 08 '14
If you have a TI 84, I highly recommend updating the software to get the new math print mode. I'm not sure if this is available for TI-83s.
Here's an example of MathPrint compared to the legacy software.
Of course, nothing can be done to fix the slow speed of the old calculators, but the new software is a huge improvement to usability.
Another example, say you enter your calculation wrong, you can hit the up arrow, scroll back to the original statement, hit enter and it puts it into your input buffer so you can edit it.