#Calculators

[paracosmicka]

Does anyone wanna look at pictures of calculators with me

[heartnosekid]

asurakb on ig

[piratesexmachine420]

If you told me this was how TI-83 binaries were structured, I would have straight up thought you were lying. JIT assembled from plaintext hex opcodes?--that can't be true. Maybe TI put that in the manual as a practical joke and nobody noticed.

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Look at this stupid-ass hexdump. Every fucking byte of this file from 0x004B to 0x13C0 is either '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', or 'F'.

This program is anti-compressed. Every byte of machine code is encoded as two bytes of plaintext characters.

Why would you ever do that. Why would you want your executable to stored as plaintext hex digits. It's certainly not for ease-of-editing--the file-initial "AsmPrgm" token (BBh 6Ch) prevents you from opening the file in the onboard editor--and it's definitely not for program integrity checking either. So why on Earth did TI think this was the move to make?

Baffling and upsetting. Thank god the execution model permits self-modifying and self-extracting compressed programs.

[which-item-poll]

maybe some cinnamoroll things?

finally getting around to doing the submissions lmao

[uptownbeancan]

Making my own post on the topic because it's interesting to think about.

*I'm talking like, any kind of calculator that displays numbers on a screen. Take this intentional vagueness as you will

[adaptive-hyperactive]

Ok listen man just to try it out I actually literally kisses my calculator under the fireworks and when I looked at it again it just said “0”

SO BASICALLY DID IT GO :0?

OMG I HAVE TO THNK ABOUT THIS

[fishwithoneeye]

My magnum opus

[odd-drive]

[discombobulatedrebel]

I can't be the only one who puts a million parentheses in my calculators because I don't trust its order of operations.

[stone-cold-groove]

IBM 80 column punch card - circa 1966.

[ded-inside-anonymous]

The most upsetting day of my entire school career was when I found out I can't use the wizard on my calculator to do my math for me. What do you mean he's living in there and can't give me the answers?? He's a wizard, he can just like *poof* math done. I'm still not convinced the wizard can't give me the answers. I'm pretty sure he just wants to watch the world burn

[slack-wise]

Smith chart

[ballroom-stims]

x x x - x x x - x x x

Doppo Kunikida from Bungo Stray Dogs stimboard featuring tea, paper, kanji, and calculators.

[vellios]

Aaaaaaah there's a math test tomorrow (today) and we're not allowed calculators this is some bullshit

[businessmemes]

Stay ahead of the curve with the new Commodore Solid State* Electronic Business Calculator.

*state is not necessarily solid.