The Beautiful TI-108

Re:The Beautiful TI-108 by sushid on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:55PM (#13990499)

The author thinks the uglier design is lamentable, but it might have actually been done on purpose to discourage (accidental) theft, similar to how bowling shoes are hideous for the same reason.

When I was in school, we used the TI-84s in classes. The classroom versions we had were these ugly yellow ones that were very easy to notice and very easy to distinguish from the regular gray/black ones.

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Re:The Beautiful TI-108 by Yhippa on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:40PM (#13990853)

I loved programming so much in high school that I would routinely hack in TI-BASIC on these things as much as I could. It was an excellent language to cut your teeth on.

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Re:The Beautiful TI-108 by derwiki on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:43PM (#13990877)

TI-BASIC and z80 assembly (TI-86) helped me get my programming fix during the day in high school since we had no programming classes.

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Re:The Beautiful TI-108 by matt_kantor on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:45PM (#13990898)

Sounds similar to my experience. My first exposure to programming was automating repetitive homework assignments and building simple games on the TI-83 Plus.

Typing code using calculator buttons was pretty tedious.

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Re:The Beautiful TI-108 by jkaptur on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:52AM (#13993242)

I first learned how to program by reading - nearly cover to cover - the TI-83 instruction manual. Fantastic.

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