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>30+ year old technology
>still costs like $90
how does Texas Instruments get away with this, and more importantly how can i get away with it too? how does a business go from the ground up to reaching the level of monopoly and exclusive contract bullshit that TI has?

>> No.24637509

>>24637490
holy shit they haven't changed since when i was in college circa 2006

>> No.24637531

>>24637490
its small and has the exact software necessary to teach math.

>> No.24637542

Buy a used one on ebay for $50 lol

>> No.24637575

>>24637490
Lol seriously? These things were this much when I was in middle school and im 32 now. You can buy used ones but the fact a new one is as much as it was decades ago is amazing indeed.

>> No.24637598

Good memories resolving hydraulic regimen with that bad boy.

>> No.24637625

I actually mentioned this a few days ago. I started high school in 2008 and the TI-83’s price hasn’t changed at all.

>> No.24637631

TI owns the patents on the integrated circuit you use in literally everything you dumbass.

>> No.24637642

>>24637490
I remember my freshman year of high school in 2012 the tryhard pajeets bought the literally $300 LED screen TIs for calculating breeding rates of a population (basic multiplication using a formula) in honors biology. One of them bought one and the next week three more did too

>> No.24637652

>>24637490
it's the same reason why publishers make fuck tons of money off of useless textbooks- cronyism. The good news is that these things are basically the Nokia Brick phone of calculators. I still have one that I stole from some kid in high school 12 years ago and I'm positive it would still work if i changed the batteries. these things can be passed down generation to generation.

>> No.24637703

>>24637490

Pussy is 200,000 year old technology and simps keep simping for it

>> No.24637717

>>24637642
i've got one of those, desu they're really nice for graphing functions, but also they're FAST. thosI remember using the big ass ones in HS(the school provided them) and sometimes they would take ages to graph a simple function.

>> No.24637765

>>24637703
kek

>> No.24637772

>>24637717
I'm sure they're great for their intended purpose. These tards just wanted to show off

>> No.24637970

>>24637490
Cellphones aren't allowed, so they have a monopoly

>> No.24638002

>>24637490
supply and command

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24638032

>Be me in high school
>Use this shit on math test
>mfw teachers didn't even know you could plug advanced shit into this (what did they think, all the buttons were just to look pretty?)
>start asking to "show your work"
>why the fuck would I do that if I have a calculator though? any job I get would have me use a calculator...
>"Anon, you're not always going to have a calculator in your pocket. What if you need to calculate something while in a restaurant??"


And now literally everyone has a fucking computer in their pockets that can calculate shit for them without even pressing buttons. Fuck boomers.

>> No.24638041

>>24637509
Did you have computers back then grandpa?

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24638054

>>24638032
Also
>tfw downloaded DOOM on my fucking calculator
>playing DOOM in the middle of math class in uper stealth

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24638076

It is not easy to find a good platform with crypto solutions to invest in.

Came across on DuckDAO, read twi posts of crypto experts. Seems like it is a transparent platform with an investment system. Have you read/found anything about it?

>> No.24638203

I would like to hear your opinion about of awesome predictions about GTX and they have cooperated with Cointiger. Seems like the success is on the way.

>> No.24638262

>>24638076
Shoo shoo

>> No.24638895

>>24637642
I bought a TI n-spire CAS to play pokemon crystal in class, it had a glorious LCD color screen

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24639044

Economies of scale and they appeal to a niche group of academics that require these calcs for standardized testing.

>> No.24639051

>>24637970
This. Graphing calculator plus is $4.99 on the App Store and does everything the Texas Instruments one does and more. But, can’t use cell phones in class so back to the over priced slab.

>> No.24639139

>>24637642
I had one of those, bought it in high school through college.
The real advantage here is the cheating. You can slap .txt files on those bad boys from your PC.

>> No.24639277

>>24638054
sick. I remember this Israeli kid in my class was trying to make his own version of Final Fantasy on his one. He programmed it to the point of having a character walking around a detailed map aimlessly.

>> No.24639358

>>24637509
Did they take your slide ruler away too, gramps?

>> No.24639426

>>24638032
Still not having numbersense is mega low IQ tier

>> No.24640475

>>24638032
It’s so they know that you know what your doing and you didn’t just copy the answers from someone else brainlet

>> No.24640641

>>24637490
it's because education and textbooks didn't change
government funded shit is always horribly inefficient, in a free market young students would be using MATLAB or wolfram instead of an overpriced calculator

How did they become standard? Probably some lobbying.

>> No.24640681

> not going for the superior ti89

Plebs

>> No.24640854

>>24637490
Can you play doom on it though?

>> No.24641068

>>24638032
if you're in high school and you're still doing problems where basic arithmetic is part of "showing your work" you are either a nigger or take classes meant for niggers