The TI-86 is a programmable

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introduced in 1996 which was produced by

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globa ...

. The TI-86 uses the

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. It is partially

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with its predecessor, the

TI-85 The TI-85 is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. Designed in 1992 as TI's second graphing calculator (the first was the TI-81), it was replaced by the TI-86, which has also been discontinued ...

. In addition to having a larger screen than the TI-83, the TI-86 also allows the user to type in lower case and Greek letters and features five softkeys, which improve menu navigation and can be programmed by the user for quick access to common operations such as decimal-to- fraction conversion. The calculator also handles

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and

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better than the TI-83. One drawback, however, is that the statistics package on the TI-83 range doesn't come preloaded on the TI-86. However, it can be downloaded from the

program archive and installed on the calculator using the link cable. The TI-86 has been discontinued.

Specifications

*CPU:

6 MHz *

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: 128 KB, 96 KB user-accessible *

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: 256 KB non-upgradable *Display: 128×64 pixels high-contrast monochrome LCD *Data Communication: Serial link port; allows two TI-86 calculators to be connected to each other, or one TI-86 to be connected to a PC, for data transfer via a special link cable *Programming Languages:

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, Z80 Assembly language (ASM)

References

External links

Official Texas Instruments TI-86 page (Internet Archive)ticalc.org
hosts a large collection of downloadable freeware programs for the TI-86 can be found at along wit
CalcG.org
- Very organized and large archive of games and programs.
The Guide
- the largest set of tutorials for TI-86 assembly programming * tp://ftp.ti.com/pub/graph-ti/calc-apps/86/asm/ti-apps/ Texas Instruments Program Archivebr>archived

Complete Disassembly of a TI-86
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Specifications

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