Ari SovijärviI got this TI-85 for the 1st year of gymnasium back in mid-90s. It has served me through many schools and later jobs and I absolutely adore its functional simplicity even when it can do a lot. #ti85 #calculators
Space HoboI found my #ti85 from the early 90s, on which I had installed #zshell in 1994 so I could play tetris in class. I gave it to my teenager, who scratched out my first name to write theirs, and is now trying to beat my 30yo high score. #PermaComputing
Jay BairdJust got a TI-85 calculator (8th grade pre-Calc flashbacks let’s goooo) I ordered off of eBay. Seems like a crazy purchase given this day and age of iPhones or interpreter windows but I’m finding out more and more I enjoy having bits of “unitasker,” non-internet connected bullshit in my life.
That and DrugWars.
Josh Renaud@textfiles
This is awesome!
I rocked a TI-85 in high school, and even went so far as to code a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style game in TI-BASIC.
In January 1998, I wrote a story for the student newspaper surveying the landscape of TI-82, 83, and 85 games. 📰
http://www.joshrenaud.com/grossworld/gazette/1997/opinions_stories.html#story_2