TI graphing calculators will always have a special place in my heart. Learning TI-BASIC at age 12 is what finally made programming click for me. Then I moved on to learning Z80 assembly that same year. By the time I went to college for computer engineering, I had been doing low-level programming for years already. It also brought me into online communities on IRC and the web. An absolutely formative experience.
I still have a TI-83 Plus, and even a converter cable, but it is damn near impossible to use it on Windows 10 nowadays. The tools are outdated, only run on Linux, and WSL doesn’t support the native serial port I have on my computer (or at least not the commands and interfacing needed for the TI protocol).
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