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Title: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: dance4life on January 20, 2012, 02:36 am
I am looking for any possible way to make a TI-89 Calculator look like a TI-8x ( anything lower than 89 )

The most likely way to do this would be to take off the cover and make "adjustments" to make it look like a different one.  Yeah, I know.. probably impossible but I am willing to pay up to $300 if you can show me a working model.  Or if you have other suggestions I am willing to listen.

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: sbaxter on January 20, 2012, 09:18 am
Hi,

I have a Ti-81 i no longer need, it is working.
Would that help you?
I cannot help you on the technical side, I don't have any skills regarding modifications of hardware.

But if you have those, you could maybe transfer he newer hardware to the older case.


cheers,

Stephe
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: dance4life on January 20, 2012, 08:04 pm
Hi,

I have a Ti-81 i no longer need, it is working.
Would that help you?
I cannot help you on the technical side, I don't have any skills regarding modifications of hardware.

But if you have those, you could maybe transfer he newer hardware to the older case.


cheers,

Stephe

Yeah, thanks.  The problem is from my point of view is that it would be extremely difficult for me to perform this operation.  I have someone in my family I may ask to do this but I don't know what kind of undertaking this is going to bring.

I also do not know as of yet if the professor is going to "wipe" the calculators before the test.  That means that he would actually be physically touching my calculator and it would be obvious the difference between an 89 GUI and a 8x display. 

Really, what would be perfect is someone that could emulate a ti-8x on a ti-89 that I made look like a ti-8x then I could just 'turn back on' the 89 somehow.  Sounds pretty impossible actually..
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: doublemint on January 20, 2012, 08:35 pm
Are we really talking about texas instrument calculators? Aren't you a little old for that?
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: dance4life on January 20, 2012, 09:04 pm
How good are you dealing with interpreting multiple integrals? 
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: doublemint on January 20, 2012, 09:09 pm
How good are you dealing with interpreting multiple integrals?
Aren't you a little old to be dealing with interpreting multiple integrals? I remember doing that in high school, but I haven't used it since being out. Unless you have a job working with numbers.
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: dance4life on January 20, 2012, 09:12 pm
Yeah, I really doubt you did any of this in high school unless you were in some sort of accelerated AP Calc class but thanks for stopping in. 
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: tordemon on January 20, 2012, 09:35 pm
This is a horribly difficult undertaking. I wouldn't recommend cheating this way at all.
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: doublemint on January 20, 2012, 10:59 pm
Yeah, I really doubt you did any of this in high school unless you were in some sort of accelerated AP Calc class but thanks for stopping in.
Maybe not, I remember having to buy a TI calculator for geometry class though. Sorry to hurt your feelings.
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: dance4life on January 21, 2012, 01:22 am
are you talking about having a x y z variable equation and having to integrate each with respect to x then y then z ??    could be easy or tough all depends on the equations you are having to integrate, but really you could spend 10 hours building this thing or programming an emulator or you could spend that time and actually learn how to integrate ;)  and this is going to be knowledge you will have to know in the future, what if the professor makes you do it by hand and show your work.  really if i were you i would get started studying, its hard but not that difficult by any means.

It's definitely hard and I agree my time would be better spent doing exactly that.  Unfortunately my mind is programmed to game the system.  I just thought I could pay my way out of this class which is justifiable in my opinion since I can't use the calculator I want to in class.  Fuck them.
Title: Re: Looking for help with TI - Calculators
Post by: dance4life on January 21, 2012, 01:23 am
Yeah, I really doubt you did any of this in high school unless you were in some sort of accelerated AP Calc class but thanks for stopping in.
Maybe not, I remember having to buy a TI calculator for geometry class though. Sorry to hurt your feelings.

Dont worry, it takes a lot to hurt my feelings :)