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lol, thats awesome. i suppose i shouldn't be surprised. Can do a heck of a lot with a couple dollars of silicon these days.

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And they mark up the price to $200 (that's what the device costed... a 68k in 2017...)

Iirc they had to lobby college board to change the rules to allow colored screens on exams since the black and white screen was more expensive than the colored ones since no one made the black and white ones anymore

I'd be open to allowing smartphones/tablets on all tests so long as there's no internet. Note taking is more important then ever imo, and knowing how to apply things rather than doing he computational machinery in your head is the more valuable skill to spend time developing (not that we shouldn't teach mental computation at all, just de focus it)

> Iirc they had to lobby college board to change the rules to allow colored screens on exams since the black and white screen was more expensive than the colored ones since no one made the black and white ones anymore

Shouldn't hike the prices on the super old TI-89 Titanium unless the screen (and the CPU, and etc.) is really that much more expensive now.

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