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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: critor on May 21, 2011, 11:44:31 am

Title: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: critor on May 21, 2011, 11:44:31 am
Have a look at what I've found today! ;D
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1112

What's your guess?
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: renatose on May 21, 2011, 12:06:10 pm
i don't believe that'll result in a production nspire, maybe someone disassembled it's nspire and mixed up with a computer motherboard to do some experiments...
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: Darl181 on May 21, 2011, 12:10:47 pm
What is ads.clicmanager.fr ?  Five minutes into loading the page and it's still waiting...
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: critor on May 21, 2011, 02:02:04 pm
The author answered me.

It seems to be a development board intermediate between the CAS+ and the ClickPad.
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: compu on May 21, 2011, 02:42:33 pm
Is there an SD-Card slot on the left? ;D
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 21, 2011, 02:45:27 pm
Woah that's huge O.o

I wonder how the case would have looked like if there was one...
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: critor on May 21, 2011, 04:25:40 pm
I've found out more things about this "big prototype" thanks to the author.

Everything I know is now available here:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=galerie&action=img&id_gal=9&id_img=143
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: renatose on May 21, 2011, 04:56:24 pm
is there any way to connect an sd card to the nspire? :p maybe embedding a microSD reader, that'd be great....
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: critor on May 21, 2011, 04:59:40 pm
is there any way to connect an sd card to the nspire? :p maybe embedding a microSD reader, that'd be great....

There were many signs in the Nspire OS that an SD card reader was planned:
- a hidden "sd" folder
- several messages mentionning "sd/mmc" in the diagnostics software

Now with this photo, we get the proof.


The question now is:
- did TI totally remove that SD card reader?
- or did TI make it "external" through the dock connector?
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: renatose on May 21, 2011, 05:16:01 pm
anyway it would be awesome if someone could make an sd card reader working fine. I remembered about 5 years ago in my math classroom during high school almost everyone had casio's calcs with SD card support. And I had a TI-83 without any cable to connect anywhere. Now I'm in university and got a nspire CAS touchpad and still much less memory than the older casio ones because of the non-existance of the SD reader...

Back in those times, I loved my TI-83. I could do anything my imagination alowed with that. And now I'm stuck with this supposed high-end calc (the CX was annouced 20 days after I bought this).
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: Freyaday on May 22, 2011, 04:07:47 pm
That was the original plan for the Nspire, but then TI realized that teachers couldn't fit thirty of those into a car (they didn't care that that wouldn't fit into a student's backpack) so they went back to the drawing board (Which they never erased) and came up with the wings we have today.
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 04:22:29 pm
Knowing TI, they probably made it separate and are planning to try to sell it later. :P
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: Freyaday on May 22, 2011, 04:24:01 pm
Oh, and the big one has a screen that actually functions!
And takes >9000ms to display anything, else you get rickrolled.
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 04:24:43 pm
We'll end up making our own hardware hack to use it if its possible. I will probably cost <1/9000 of what TI would want us to pay
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 22, 2011, 04:31:53 pm
Very strange. I wonder how and where the owner of this prototype managed to get his hands on it.
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Post by: ExtendeD on May 22, 2011, 04:48:57 pm
He worked at TI a while ago, on the cross-platform (software + OS) GUI if I remember well.
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Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 22, 2011, 04:50:29 pm
Ah, that could explain it. It's nice of him to share this with the community. =)
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:01:02 pm
I wonder how angry TI is at him...
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 05:02:07 pm
If he worked at TI a while ago, how did he get his hands on this?
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:02:40 pm
and why has TI let him keep it?
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 05:11:18 pm
TI must be furious righ about now...
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Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:11:45 pm
will they hunt him down with blood sucking lawyers?
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Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 05:13:44 pm
Either that, or they'll use this as an excuse to block even more features on the Nspire.
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:14:31 pm
They don't bother using excuses anymore they just block and break things
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 05:25:12 pm
If it had an SD port and better programming capabilities, I actually might have been willing to carry around that giant thing.
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:26:43 pm
I'd just try to hack that into my regular Nspire. That thing won't fit in my pocket or binder.

It might become like a comp at my house though
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 05:29:16 pm
That's true... might as well carry around a laptop instead. :P
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:29:52 pm
I getting a laptop this summer :)
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: pianoman on May 22, 2011, 05:30:09 pm
What kind?
Title: Re: A giant TI-Nspire prototype ?!!!
Post by: ruler501 on May 22, 2011, 05:33:52 pm
Don't know yet. My parents are deciding. I sending them all the good inexpensive ones I can find. Right now they agree It should be a 64 bit with Windows 7