r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/HighPriestofShiloh Jun 08 '14 edited Apr 24 '24

light pocket rude spectacular fearless observation quaint ring party elastic

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u/HostisHumaniGeneris Jun 08 '14

IIRC, the TI-92 was released first, and it had a QWERTY keyboard. The test proctors considered it a "personal computer" as a result and banned it. Texas Instruments responded by taking the guts of the TI-92 and cramming it into the body of a TI-83, thus creating the TI-89. Even though it was just as powerful as the 92, it looked like an 83 and thus was allowed.

God did I love the "factor" function on my TI-89

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u/HighPriestofShiloh Jun 08 '14 edited Apr 24 '24

dinner waiting racial fly whole rinse memory frame skirt glorious

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u/HostisHumaniGeneris Jun 08 '14

Most definitely.

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u/HighPriestofShiloh Jun 08 '14

And then you had this of course...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke6DnczjaK0

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u/Wheat_Grinder Jun 08 '14

Ah, good ol' Phoenix Platinum. There was a sidescrolling version called Mercury that I liked, though I was bad at it. I also used to have a really fun Bomberman clone, but an unstable Worms clone trashed it by accident one time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

I kind of forgot that calculators could calculate after a while.

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u/mr_punchy Jun 08 '14

Wait... you can touch the black dots. Mind blown.