• MasterNerd@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Fuck Texas Instruments. All my homies hate Texas Instruments

    Seriously trying to charge $100 for a calculator running 50-year-old hardware (the ti-84’s CPU, the zilog z80 was created in 1976). Fucking ridiculous

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      8 months ago

      But at the same time as a semiconductor manufacturer i really like them. They have high quality ics for literally everything. I think that they are so big that the different parts of the company dont even interact.

    • protist@mander.xyz
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      8 months ago

      But they seem to last forever, so there are a ton available in the aftermarket. My TI-89 from 1997 still works like new, and I plan to bequeath it to my son

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      8 months ago

      They may be expensive for what you get, but they’re built to last. Still using the TI-83 that I got in 1997 and it works as good as the day I got it.