Yes,my brother sent me a Texas Instruments TI-83 plus.S.E. from his home in N.America .It came of course with the "Getting Started" guidebook (60 pges,A5 format and also a CD which you are supposed to place on your computer in order to down the FULL ELECTRONIC GUIDEBOOK. Now I havent got a computer and I thus need a full PRINTED GUIDEBOOK iin order to maximise the potential of the calculator. But when you contact customer services at Texas Instruments you are told they do not sell printed FULL guidebook.So I have got a wondeful piece of electronic wizardry which I am painstakingly trying to figure out how it works all because Texas Instruments in its wisdom decides its going to be "with it" and restrict opoerational advice to the realm of cyber space.Now I am NOT a "Luddite"(check on English history") but its not reasonable to be sold a 150US dollar piece of gagetry and then be told you need to spend a further 1000 US dollars or so in order to make it work to its full potential.Having finished that gripe I AM happy with the functioning of the calculator....my only gripe is the impossibility of buying a PRINTED FULL GUIDEBOOK and NOT being told in advance that this is the situation before getting ones N
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator Decide Now
Yes,my brother sent me a Texas Instruments TI-83 plus.S.E. from his home in N.America .It came of course with the "Getting Started" guidebook (60 pges,A5 format and also a CD which you are supposed to place on your computer in order to down the FULL ELECTRONIC GUIDEBOOK. Now I havent got a computer and I thus need a full PRINTED GUIDEBOOK iin order to maximise the potential of the calculator. But when you contact customer services at Texas Instruments you are told they do not sell printed FULL guidebook.So I have got a wondeful piece of electronic wizardry which I am painstakingly trying to figure out how it works all because Texas Instruments in its wisdom decides its going to be "with it" and restrict opoerational advice to the realm of cyber space.Now I am NOT a "Luddite"(check on English history") but its not reasonable to be sold a 150US dollar piece of gagetry and then be told you need to spend a further 1000 US dollars or so in order to make it work to its full potential.Having finished that gripe I AM happy with the functioning of the calculator....my only gripe is the impossibility of buying a PRINTED FULL GUIDEBOOK and NOT being told in advance that this is the situation before getting ones N
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