Once they gave us faster processors and enabled ASM programming, they were objectively the superior option. I am still wondering if we ever get a programmable & graphing calculator with a a 128x64 reflective display, either a rechargeable Li-Ion cell or one AAA battery that lasts forever and does not make the unit terribly thick so that it fits comfortably in a pocket, and has USB-mini-B or C of course. I wrote Snake, Mastermind and TriPeaks for the pictured CASIO CFX-9850 PLUS and coding was a better experience than on TI. However, our course taught TI, there were no affordable second-hand CASIOs and I wanted ready-made ASM games like 2048, Mario and Tetris so I went with the TI-84 Plus for IB.
The programs I wrote are still somewhere on my hard drive and I will publish their source as text as well as a CA-124-friendly file at some point. They work on newer programmable monochrome 128x64 CASIOs too if you remove colors and adjust for the faster processor. Unfortunately, the lack of comments and single-letter variables mean that the code is a mess but I might have the reworked versions somewhere too.
OK, I kinda get it. However, I will still be drawing a rage comic about this once I get a graphics tablet.
Rage comic idea
◰ Kid: *sings to a sing-along video on their tablet* "♪ now I know my ABCs ♫"
◳ Ghost of Karl Marx: *appears* "DON'T SAY THAT!"
Kid: *shocked*
◱ Karl Marx: *monologue all over the panel* "The modern Latin alphabet is not your private property! It is in the public domain, the collective ownership of mankind, and used by all English speakers as well as by literate people all over the world with minor variations. Billions of lives were made easier with a common writing system and a standard ordering of its glyphs. Learning what countless other children in the past few centuries have mastered does not give you the right to claim ownership of this knowledge and, in fact,..."
Kid: "Oh my god!"
◲ Karl Marx: *slaps kid with Das Kapital* (ormaybeabetterpunchline,IDK)
Imagine YouTuber describing a vintage computer: “...above the keyboard, you’ll find your cursor keys,” knowing that 99 % of their viewers never owned that type of computer.
·10 months ago
·11 months ago
What the video doesn't address: Did the politicians face any consequences?