- TI-84 plus CE unreleased colors!
- 26 Apr 2020 08:46:33 pm
- Last edited by mr womp womp on 03 Aug 2020 12:55:00 pm; edited 5 times in total
Critor from Tiplanet has announced that he discovered unreleased colors of the TI-84 plus CE on ebay. The units contain no serial number and the mention "NOT FOR SALE", usually seen on prototypes.
They are all the 2017 design
EDIT: Although some of them were definitely rev J, Hooloovoo has received his and some of them are rev M! Which means that they have the faster flash. Here's a picture of the inside of Adriweb's Dark Teal version:
As you can see, that's the new chip and the datecode on it is 1908. (8th week of 2019)
The ones that are rev J coincide with the release of 4 new TI-84 plus CE colors: Measure Mint, Galaxy Gray, Count on Coral and Bionic Blue. Presumably, the marketing team at TI was experimenting with different color combinations and finishes and settled on those 4, and the ones spotted would be rejected designs.
Here's a reminder of the 4 released colors:
On the other hand, the ones that are revision M might be prototypes used for testing the new hardware (for those that aren't aware, revision M is the newer generation of TI-84+CEs that was released at the same time as the TI-83 Premium CE Python Edition. It uses a much faster flash chip that can be accessed with no wait states, greatly improving the overall speed of the calculator). The inside shows no signs of rework or anything that would suggest it might have been used for prototyping. For this reason, I suspect they are also marketing samples, just from a different period since we know that TI did release a new color (Tangent Teal) around that time.
Getting a close look at one of these will allow us to determine exactly what we're dealing with.
And here are the unreleased colors that have been spotted:
Green/blue (Rev J)
Salmon and Light Salmon (Rev M)
Teal and Dark Teal (Rev M)
We don't know if TI had official names for these like they did with the released colors, so I'm just stating what colors they look like and what the listing on ebay calls them.
The backs look like this:
I bought a "Dark Teal" one, which will be arriving early May.
You can click on the images to view them in full-res.
You can check out critor's article over on tiplanet.
EDIT: The ebay seller joined Cemetech, he informed me that these come from a supplier in Dallas, which also suggests that they come directly from TI, which is headquartered in Dallas.
EDIT: Although some of them were definitely rev J, Hooloovoo has received his and some of them are rev M! Which means that they have the faster flash. Here's a picture of the inside of Adriweb's Dark Teal version:
As you can see, that's the new chip and the datecode on it is 1908. (8th week of 2019)
The ones that are rev J coincide with the release of 4 new TI-84 plus CE colors: Measure Mint, Galaxy Gray, Count on Coral and Bionic Blue. Presumably, the marketing team at TI was experimenting with different color combinations and finishes and settled on those 4, and the ones spotted would be rejected designs.
Here's a reminder of the 4 released colors:
On the other hand, the ones that are revision M might be prototypes used for testing the new hardware (for those that aren't aware, revision M is the newer generation of TI-84+CEs that was released at the same time as the TI-83 Premium CE Python Edition. It uses a much faster flash chip that can be accessed with no wait states, greatly improving the overall speed of the calculator). The inside shows no signs of rework or anything that would suggest it might have been used for prototyping. For this reason, I suspect they are also marketing samples, just from a different period since we know that TI did release a new color (Tangent Teal) around that time.
Getting a close look at one of these will allow us to determine exactly what we're dealing with.
And here are the unreleased colors that have been spotted:
Green/blue (Rev J)
Salmon and Light Salmon (Rev M)
Teal and Dark Teal (Rev M)
We don't know if TI had official names for these like they did with the released colors, so I'm just stating what colors they look like and what the listing on ebay calls them.
The backs look like this:
I bought a "Dark Teal" one, which will be arriving early May.
You can click on the images to view them in full-res.
You can check out critor's article over on tiplanet.
EDIT: The ebay seller joined Cemetech, he informed me that these come from a supplier in Dallas, which also suggests that they come directly from TI, which is headquartered in Dallas.
