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How can I do IO through the USB port 4 cx CAS?

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DJ Omnimaga:
Yeah the only things I can recommend if you want to stick with calculator programming (I hope you stick around here no matter what, though, since over here there are also people interested in non-calculator related material ;)) is maybe get a refund explaining it's the wrong calc and you needed the 89Titanium, HP Prime, etc, then instead buy an older TI-Nspire CX used on Ebay or at a pawn shop and make sure that it runs OS 3.1 or below. Or you can of course go with an alternate calc. The most open calculators are the Z80 and 68K series, then comes the FX-9860G/FX-cg10/20 series. The HP Prime is a bit cheaper and more powerful than the Nspire, but it cannot run ASM yet either.

TI has done everything to make sure that no hacking occurs on the TI-Nspire line. They're getting even worse than Apple now and they spend more time locking the platform down than fixing bugs.


The only alternative besides a boycott is that customers e-mail TI requesting the ability to downgrade back or be able to use Ndless again, but how many people will it take?

Streetwalrus:
Well you say they spend more time locking than fixing. This simple equation actually works : TI = APP£€ * Micro$oft. :P

Slaith:

--- Quote from: Lionel Debroux on October 13, 2013, 05:03:59 am ---TI has always been concerned more about locking the calculator down and making it less useful to users. They're only worsening over time.

Depending on what you want to control, embedded ARM-based boards such as the highly popular Raspberry Pi, the Cubieboard, the BeagleBone Black, and others, are all of:
* much more powerful;
* much more open;
* much easier;
* much cheaper;
than any calculator on the market. Even the newly released HP Prime.

--- End quote ---

Dear Lionel,

Thank you very much for your response but I am struggling to understand exactly what your point is?

Lionel Debroux:
I was replying to the following sentence of yours:

--- Quote ---I just wanted a simple way to use it to control things for my 10 year-old son
--- End quote ---
I'm not sure what that encompasses, but I can confirm you that the Nspire is a very poor platform for programming, as you've found.
Even though it has a built-in screen, keyboard and battery, it's overly expensive and limited, compared to other recent platforms whose programmability is a design goal of (instead of being considered an anti-feature by) the manufacturer.

Slaith:

--- Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 13, 2013, 12:40:02 pm ---Yeah the only things I can recommend if you want to stick with calculator programming (I hope you stick around here no matter what, though, since over here there are also people interested in non-calculator related material ;)) is maybe get a refund explaining it's the wrong calc and you needed the 89Titanium, HP Prime, etc, then instead buy an older TI-Nspire CX used on Ebay or at a pawn shop and make sure that it runs OS 3.1 or below. Or you can of course go with an alternate calc. The most open calculators are the Z80 and 68K series, then comes the FX-9860G/FX-cg10/20 series. The HP Prime is a bit cheaper and more powerful than the Nspire, but it cannot run ASM yet either.

TI has done everything to make sure that no hacking occurs on the TI-Nspire line. They're getting even worse than Apple now and they spend more time locking the platform down than fixing bugs.


The only alternative besides a boycott is that customers e-mail TI requesting the ability to downgrade back or be able to use Ndless again, but how many people will it take?

--- End quote ---

DJ Omnimaga,

Believe me I DO HEAR YOU! The problem is that its their hardware and patents etc so ideally we could spend a lot of time decrypting their algorithms or as we say in EW countermeasures and they will countermeasure our countermeasures etc ad infinitim until one of  goes bankrupt or...
BTW I go back to the 70's and I am very very familiar with UCPU technology and can easily use whatever CPU but my 10 year old son & daughter with a cx CAS????

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