![]() Surprisingly, teachers let me use my school apps on the tests because I built them myself and it needed an understanding of the concepts to build the software, and if I was going to risk my high school graduation on it, it was up to me. ![]() ![]() This type of development gave me a much deeper insight and grasp of math, formulas and how things worked and could be manipulated. Calculus had to be done by hand but I had an app for testing various elements. Highlight for me was the programmability of it to write software for my high school courses, including math and chemistry formula sheet software. Got to build a serial port cable interface by cutting my wire in half, external storage devices for it, custom software. This opened the door for things like doom, tetris and other games. Also had assembly programming capability thanks to an oversight that couldn't be taken away. Was the first calc to have a link cable to connect 2 calculators. These devices were the equivalent of a smartphone in the 90's in a lot of ways.
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