Woohoo! Yesterday in comp sci, my teacher came over to me randomly and set a giant (about 8"x11") 4 function calculator by my comp and said if I wanted it, I could have it. Then, today, when I went out to get in my car to leave for school, there was a TI-89 on my passenger seat. My sister graduated college this year and said I could have her calc!

I have no way to send programs to the 89, though... My 84+SE came with a usb->comp cable, but no serial->comp. A few months ago my comp sci teacher gave me a serial->parallel port cable so I was hoping I could use that. My new comp doesn't even have a parallel port, and my old comp only has a female one (and the cable is female). I guess I'm going to have to go buy one..

Well I just bought an new 83+on ebay for $40 with shipping My plan was to use it for testing ex. LIFOS. BTW you can get the USB Silverlink cables anywhere for $20.
Edit: I was out bid at the last moment so I didn't get the 83 darn.

You could also get a converter for the cable that you do have (black or gray?), I think.

Yeah, but I hate spending money. I'm a total cheapskate.

Build it!

Haha, maybe I could straighten out paper clips to make a male<->male adapter for my cable.

http://kvince83.tengun.net/maxboard/viewtopic.php?t=2430

heh, still doesn't compare to my amount of calcs... 18 calcs ftw!! ^_^

WOw! Can I have one? pleazzzzz

How the heck did you get 18? and please don't tell me they are all in the 83+ family. That would be kinda creepy...

http://weregoose.unitedti.org/collage/page04.html

That is my collection

I like mine .

It hard to tell what model some of them are, can you give us a list.

Edit: my bad there is a list and here it is for those of you who don't want to click the link.
TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, TI-89, TI-89, TI-84 Plus, TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, TI-86, TI-85, TI-92 Plus, TI-85, TI-86, TI-73, TI-81, TI-82, TI-83, TI-83, TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus

The list is under the picture, starting from the top left and moving right...

Whoa! You have a TI-73?! I knew about the others, but...

I wish I got free TI-89's...

I would still suggest the silver link...

But an I/O cable is easy to make, just pick up two 2.5mm stereo jacks from radio shack or similar.

I just use TiEmu for all my free 68Ks.

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Hunderedeth post!

It's just not quite the same though.

But yeah, better than nothing!

Actually, I have an 73 emulator (TI SDK hehehe...), and its really wierd... Same basic idea as a 83+, just wierd layout and controls...