Another graduation gift I received is the TI Voyage 200 calculator. This is pretty much the Rolls Royce of calculators, and (I firmly believe) may be the best chip-based calculator ever made.

This shot shows it next to my iPad, which itself displays a life-sized image of the calculator. How meta!

It’s a super device that can do almost anything you can imagine. A machine brain that makes me, a mere human, humble.

Newer TI calculators are more like tablets, with colour screens and apps. This guy is old school, and although it can run apps (downloaded from the PC) via USB, the main function of the device is in a dedicated chip.

Did I mention the manual is 1080 pages in length? 🙂

Anyway I’m going to write a basic game for this one day. You can expect a blog entry if I succeed…