Read the first thing that popped up on DuckDuckGo for me about it To prove I’m not literally just making the concept up. https://bhsblueprint.org/showcase/2024/02/29/tis-calculator-empire-the-unstoppable-ti-84/
But again the point is still as always that I’m pitching a shift in perspective against always giving the benefit of the doubt to massive corporations literally in every aspect of any argument. What if-hear me out- what if, it actually doesn’t matter how Texas Instruments got their monopoly. That whether or not it was done “illegally” or as a natural result of shrewd business practices is ., in fact, deliberately obfuscating the fact that it is a monopoly, that it did come into existence by leveraging its standing as a weapons manufacturer and government partner to dominate a smaller market.
Like that would be the important part or something.
Yeah whatever. I loved Lemmy at first and I’m hoping it’s just the election season but gd this is terminally online. And that’s coming from me
Are they still used? I feel like they should be dead since smart phones Re ubiquitous
You’re solving for the wrong problem with a smartphone. This isn’t a question of computational power. Remember these hand calculators are teaching tools for basic and intermediate math. The TI calculators hit that competency threshold decades ago.
The TI calculator has decades of teaching material written for it and known and documented limitations on programmable storage that can be verified cleared by a proctor prior to use by students on tests.
Besides the cost they are nearly ideal for a school and teaching environment.