Reminiscence... Playing games in school on your TI calculator...

[BlueBMW]

I was a dumb kid. Never took the classes that required such gear.

I don't think anyone I know that did take those classes actually remembers any of that shit 20 years later now though so in the end we're all on the same page.

So true... I took Calculus in high school and ended up in developmental math when I went back to college a mere 6 years later...

Blue have you gotten - "You were born in the 80's damn your old" yet?  I got this for the first time recently thanks to those 18 somethings.  All I could think was Shit I'm 26 - when did 26 become old?

I havent got that yet, but its strange talking to kids born after 2000...

[Arkhan]

26, old?

da f*ck.

[TheClash603]

I didn't know that you could do this shit!  I would've loved playing some games on my calculator back in the day.

I actually programmed my own game over the course of a few weeks of boredom in class.  It was a text choose your own adventure game, where it would just give a sentence and then a few choices.  I remember a few people would ask to borrow my calculator in class so they could play my gem.

I don't remember much about the game other than you were a man who woke up with amnesia and you had to find your identity.  In the twist ending, you find out you are actually Hitler and you lose anyway.

[Arkhan]

I didn't know that you could do this shit!  I would've loved playing some games on my calculator back in the day.

man, that is crazy talk.

[RoyVegas]

Had I known you could play games at school, I just might have actually shown up a few more days...

[tggodfrey]

i could never figure how loading games was done. I still have my TI81 and TI86.

[Jibbajaba]

I'm disappointed in you, Beamer.  $80 for a link cable?  I made my own.  First thing I ever soldered together, actually.

Chris

[BlueBMW]

I'm disappointed in you, Beamer.  $80 for a link cable?  I made my own.  First thing I ever soldered together, actually.

Chris

I know... i had even looked up how to do it.  At that age though, my access to the right tools and supplies was somewhat limited.

[Jibbajaba]

I'm disappointed in you, Beamer.  $80 for a link cable?  I made my own.  First thing I ever soldered together, actually.

Chris

I know... i had even looked up how to do it.  At that age though, my access to the right tools and supplies was somewhat limited.

Oh.  I made mine back in 1998 when I was 21 and in community college.  I bought a TI-89 right when it came out.  At that time you couldn't just buy the link cable in stores - you had to send away for it.  Well I was way too impatient for that so I found some plans online for making a link cable that plugged into your parallel (not serial) port.  Went down to Radio Shack and bought the cheapest soldering iron that they had, plus the parts to make the cable.  I wish I still had it, just for fun.  Of course I have a USB model now.  Still have the same TI-89, though, along with an 83 and a couple of HP 48’s (one G and one GX.)  those HPs are cool for games because they have sound.  VERY rudimentary though.

Chris

[Arkhan]

Mine came with my calculator!

BWAJHHAHAHfhsghahahahahaahahHWHAHahahaha



I still have my TI-83 also, and it's sitting doing nothing.

Did you know the ## in TI-## has nothing to do with the calculator itself.    Supposedly the number is the graduating year of the lead calculator-warlord who made the thing.

So whoever made the 89 graduated in 89. 

At least, that's what I've been told.

So eventually we are going to have a TI-00 and people will shit their pants.