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Texas Instruments Voyage 200 Scientific Calculator with Graphing - Get the best TI tool for College Calculus, Engineering, and beyond! This latest in the line of TI handhelds is a must-have for College Math and Engineering. The Voyage 200 handheld has a huge 2.7 Mb of Flash ROM, lots of pre-loaded Handheld Software Applications (Apps), and a real-time clock. Not to mention the fact that it comes with the TI Connectivity USB cable for Windows and Macintosh computers. It still contains all of the inherent functionality of the TI-92 Plus, including 3-D rotations and contour plots, symbolic manipulation, systems of equations, syntax listings, and much, much more. The QWERTY keyboard on the Voyage 200 keeps programming and note-taking as easy as ever! Allows Mathematical expressions to appear on the display the same way as they are written on the board or in texts Uses 4 AAA alkaline batteries and a back-up lithium battery (CR1616 or CR1620). Backup battery pre-installed, and AAA batteries are included
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 Powerful little beast |
| Review Date: October 3, 2003 |
| Reviewer: Fitz the Robot, Cambridge, MA |
Plain and simple, I love calculators. Yes, I have both Matlab and Mathematica running on my multiprocessor workstation but calculators have always had a special place in my heart. Since high school, I've firmly been in the HP camp and like many, I think the HP41C remains one of the finest calculators ever made. But the HP legacy started its sad decline with the 28C and the bottom fell out with the HP48G, perhaps the worst calculator HP has ever made. (It literally can take seconds to add two numbers... what could they have been thinking?)
All of that being said, I decided to venture into the TI camp, if only because they still take calculators seriously. I was dubious, however, because their machines seem designed for high school students rather than professional scientists/engineers, and this is reflected in the lack of high-end software packages available for them. Nonetheless, I don't think since the HP41 line have any calculators attracted so much interest or had so large a community built around them as have the recent TIs.
The Voyage 200 is something of a tour de force. It is based on the Motorola 68000, the same processor found in the original Macintosh and many other popular computers. It is programmable both in TI Basic and in 68000 assembly, the latter of which has lead to a rather impressive library of available games and applications that all run amazingly quickly given their platform. This whole software world is somewhat muddled by the fact that TI has released a series of operating system upgrades and patches for this calculator and wading the compatibility waters is very confusing for the uninitiated. (For example, for HP aficianados, it is quite possible to run an extremely well done RPN interface on this calculator, but it requires that you find & download both the RPN assembly program and HW2 AMS 2 TSR support (h220xTSR) if you're using the latest version of the operating system, AMS 2.09. When was the last time you worried about what operating system your calculator was running??)
Another troublesome point about this calculator is the documentation is shockingly bad. Really, it is just plain awful. It comes with a thin, almost useless manual, and you'll have to read through 20+ pages just to find out how to add 1+1. Haven't they ever heard of a "getting started quickly" guide? There are several hundred pages of manuals on CD and on the web, but in general, there are written very poorly indeed. Coming from the world of professionally written documentation for systems like Mathematica and Matlab, I realize just how lucky we are that those companies take documentation very seriously and write far simpler manuals for much more complex systems.
All in all, however, I think the Voyage 200 is the best thing going in the calculator world today. It's wonderful to once again have a calculator whose capabilities are as much fun to discover as it is to use. I doubt I'll ever find time for assembly programming on this beast, but it warms my heart to know that I could. |
Better than HP49G and HP 48GX
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| Review Date: August 21, 2002 |
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| I own TI Voyage 200, HP 49G, and HP 48GX. HP 48GX comes with a very good equation library. Operation is OK. Not very difficult to learn. Plug-in hardware card is a plus because you won't delete purchased software accidently. Overall, HP 48GX is good but is a little bit old in this modern world. HP 49G has no equation library. Very difficult to learn and use. Insufficient of manuals, books, and resources. Calculation and graphing are often slower than Voyage 200 for the same problems. The answers to polynomial sometimes look like 0.9999998 but the Voyage 200 gives 1. Some people say HP 49G is the most powerful graphing calculator in the world. As an owner, I would say I don't know. Be aware, HP discontinued their research and development of graphing calculators sometime ago. TI Voyage 200 is the best. Bigger and better resolution viewer screen. Computer-like keyborad saves your time and efforts that compares to ALPHA ALPHA *****. The keyboard layout also avoids mistakes. Comes with many pre-loaded applications and you can download and transfer more by yourself. Very easy to learn, I did not spend too much effort and feel I can handle this calculator. Plenty of instruction manuals, books, and resources that are compatible to TI 92 Plus and TI-89. It is a pleasure to own and use Voyage 200. |
Best Damn Calculator Ever!!!
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| Review Date: February 8, 2003 |
| Reviewer: Alexandru Mitroi, Fullerton, CA United States |
If anyone shows me a calculator who can take more than the 500th power of 2 without scientific notation and rounding -whole number displayed - i will buy that calculator.And the Voyage can pass that, depends on memory available. This thing insane to say the least. Do not buy it unless you are a math or physics or related major. Its over kill for trig or algebra. This thing does miracle in my labs for both chem and physics; and in multivariable calculus and differential equations and linear algebra courses it will give you what no book can: answers to every problem. It is so easy to check yourself with this. Thats why its called PLT- Personal Learning Tool. It has everything. The fact that it is a TI and succesor to the 92 Plus speaks for itself. Any HP is a spec of dust compared to this.
I should point out that the Voyage 200 is an upgrade on the 92 plus. Thats why theres no printed manual. Uses same manual as TI 89. But if you go to [websit]you will find alot of stuff on using it. |
A word on documentation
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| Review Date: March 16, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Sandstone, Salem, OR United States |
Recently received my Voyage 200, and am very pleased with the unit itself. As others have commented, the lack of a decent printed manual is a drawback.
Knowing that the TI-89 Titanium is functionally almost identical to the Voyage 200, I called Texas Instruments and ordered a TI-89 manual. Customer service was very friendly, the manual was cheap ($4.95 + s/h), and it arrived quickly.
TI really should package this manual with the Voyage 200, and maybe they'll start doing it in the future. In the meantime, if you're getting a Voyage 200, just order an 89 manual from TI. |
Best calculator ever made
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| Review Date: December 26, 2002 |
| Reviewer: David Owens, La Mirada, CA USA |
| I must confess that I own the TI-92 Plus, which lacks the on screen icons. However, I understand that they are otherwise the same. I own both the TI 83 and the TI-89, and this is far better.The 89 requires the Alpha key to enter text, a real pain. Plus, the 89 has 2-3 color codes per key, making it hard to read. The 92-Plus, and the 200 Voyager, eliminate that hassle for ease of entry and use. It is true that it is much larger, but so what? I have used it to actually try to learn math, and it has been very rewarding for me, eliminating drudgery. One other note of interest: this CAS program was originally written by the guys who wrote the Derive math program, a fabulous math tool. Texas Instruments purchased the company and now uses it in the TI series of calculators. Highly, highly, recommended. |
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