Timeline for Why have consumer-level graphing calculators seemingly not developed in 20+ years?
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| Mar 8 at 13:18 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | You may want to add more details on how important it is for schools to avoid cheating which the internet on phones is undermining extremely fast. | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 16:23 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Nov 8, 2023 at 16:18 | history | suggested | Nayuki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2023 at 23:54 | comment | added | dan04 | Note that the SAT's ban on QWERTY keyboards is the entire reason for the existence of the TI-89, which is otherwise functionally identical to the TI-92(+). | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 22:40 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @RichardErickson nice, thanks. I try to avoid, whenever possible, using pay walled sources. | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 18:15 | comment | added | Richard Erickson | Nice answer. There have been several news articles on this, including a "reto" article from 2014 from the Washington Post that could serve as a source for many of your facts. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 15:36 | comment | added | Sean Duggan | While this was almost 30 years ago, I remember that graphing calculators in my high school actually had limits on how powerful they could be essentially because the teachers wanted the students to be able to graph out functions, but not write programs that could solve them and/or play Nibbler, Pac-Man, Doom, etc. And, of course, there was another market for limiting calculator power in competitions like the Academic Team Math tests. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 15:26 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @MarkMorganLloyd I would agree by saying it needs dedication ... something an engineer without other tools had or some a kid discovering programming might still have. Then again, latest Casio and Texas models do have USB and PC software to use a host machine for programming and download of programs and data. At least the non restricted versions do. | |
| Nov 6, 2023 at 7:41 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | I'd suggest also that it's extremely difficult to do meaningful programming on a handheld device. Far easier to use a full-sized PC with unrestricted screen size etc., if necessary transferring the result to something proprietary and probably expensive. | |
| Nov 5, 2023 at 18:17 | comment | added | supercat | On a related note, I wonder why the kind of color LCDs found in Casio calculators don't seem to appear anywhere else even though they can produce a far nicer "idle" display (with a current draw suitable for continuous operation even when nobody is looking at it) for use in an at-least-moderately-lit environment than other technologies. | |
| Nov 5, 2023 at 17:32 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2023 at 15:51 | comment | added | Jon Custer | 40 years ago my HP-15 was an indispensable tool for engineering. Now? Not so much… | |
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| Nov 5, 2023 at 15:35 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @Smith That's part of the cost defining the base price as mentioned - but it's for most parts exactly the same cost as for software, as those functions are just software as all graphic calculators are based on of the shelf processors - Z80, 68k, SH, ARM, etc. Also, even though it's a nice market, we still talk about millions per model, so deep into a region where using a ASIC results in optimal savings. | |
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| Nov 5, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | Smith | You might add cost of development. The TI calculators use a big custom ASIC, along with a custom housing with lots of physical buttons. The cost of developing a new product in that style might therefore be high given the size of the market. But if one just does the functionality in an app, those costs melt away. | |
| Nov 5, 2023 at 14:22 | history | answered | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |