[TriEmbed] Who didn't love their TI-83 (and follow ons)? Now we know why? (had beloved Z80)

[Trampas Stern]

I Bought a TI calculator in college from the bookstore, after reading the
manual I realized it did not even have a clock.
Took it back and got the HP48, which was awesome for the time especially
for rectangular to polar conversions.  The reverse polish notation also
made so much more sense. Used the HP48 for about a decade, now for most
stuff I leave octave open on the computer and do any math I need in
octave.
Octave is great for my uses as it has printf() which works like C, as such
I can do numeric (hex) conversions using printf.
I suspect that AI will eventually replace my use of octave, specifically, I
can ask AI to write a python program for math and run it. I already do this
for generating graphs and graphics.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM Mike Lisanke via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> BTW, I have an older TI-84 that won't boot (won't hold a charge?)
> If anyone thinks they can instruct me to do simple EE poking. I'd be
> grateful
> I think it's internal lithium battery didn't get recharged for too long (?)
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM Carl Nobile <carl.nobile at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I still have a working TS-85.
>>
>> ~Carl
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM Mike Lisanke via TriEmbed <
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