- TI-73 series
TI-73 series are
graphing calculator s made byTexas Instruments .The original TI-73 was originally designed in
1998 as a replacement for theTI-80 for use at a middle school level (grades 6-9). Its primary advantage over theTI-80 is its 512 KB offlash memory , which holds the calculator's operating system and thereby allows the calculator to be upgraded. Other advantages over the TI-80 are the TI-73's standard sized screen (as opposed to the TI-80's smaller screen), the addition of a link port, 25 KB of RAM (as compared to the TI-80's 7 KB of RAM), and a faster 6 MHzZilog Z80 processor (as compared with the TI-80's 980 kHz proprietary processor). The TI-73 also uses the standard 4 AAA batteries with a lithium backup battery (instead of the TI-80's 2 CR2032 lithium batteries).In
2003 , the TI-73 has been slightly redesigned and redesignated the TI-73 Explorer to indicate its currently intended use as a bridge between theTI-15 and similar calculators and theTI-83 Plus ,TI-84 Plus , and similar calculators.Due to lack of demand in middle schools, the TI-73 and TI-73 Explorer have not been huge sellers for TI and are not carried by most retail stores.
Originally the TI-73 could only run programs written in
TI-Basic , although that has changed in recent years. In 2005 an assembly shell called Mallard was released for the TI-73. Mallard allows the user to run programs written in assembly language. As with the TI-82 and the TI-85 before, a hacked backup file is downloaded containing the assembly shell.Technical specifications
;CPU:
Zilog Z80 CPU, 6 MHz;Flash ROM : 512 KB with 128 KB available for Flash Applications;RAM: 32 KB with 25 KB available to the user;Display : Text: 16×8 characters;I/O : Link port: 50 button built-in interface;Power: 4 AAA batteries plus 1 lithium battery forbackup ;Integratedprogramming language s:TI-BASIC ee also
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Comparison of Texas Instruments Graphing Calculators External links
* [http://education.ti.com/us/product/tech/73/features/features.html Features of the TI-73 Explorer]
*Some TI-73 programs can be found at [http://www.ticalc.org/pub/73 ticalc.org] and several others at [http://calcg.org/ CalcG.org] .
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