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The TI-84 Plus is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments which was released in early 2004. There is no original TI-84, only the TI-84 Plus, the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition models, and the TI-84 Plus CE. The TI-84 Plus is an enhanced version of the TI-83 Plus. The key-by-key correspondence is relatively the same, but the 84 features some improved hardware. The archive (ROM) is about 3 times as large, and CPU about 2.5 times as fast (over the TI-83 and TI-83 Plus). A USB port and built-in clock functionality were also added. The USB port on the TI-84 Plus series is USB On-The-Go compliant, similar to the next generation TI-Nspire calculator, which supports connecting to USB based data collection devices and probes, and supports device to device transfers over USB rather than over the serial link port.^[1]

Versions[edit]

TI-84 Plus Silver Edition[edit]

The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition was released in 2004 as an upgrade to the TI-83 Plus. Like the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, it features a 15 MHzZilog Z80 processor and 24 kB user available RAM. The chip has 128 kB, but Texas Instruments has not made an OS that uses all of it. Newer calculators have a RAM chip that is only 48 kB. All calculators with the letter H or later as the last letter in the serial code have fewer RAM pages, causing some programs to not run correctly.^[2] There is 1.5 MB of user-accessible Flash ROM. Like the standard TI-84 Plus, the Silver Edition includes a built-in USB port, a built-in clock, and assembly support. It uses 4 AAA batteries and a backup button cell battery. The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition comes preloaded with a variety of applications. These programs are also available for the TI-84 Plus, but some must be downloaded separately from TI's website. It is manufactured by Kinpo Electronics.

TI offers a special yellow version of the TI-84 Plus, inscribed with the words 'School Property', for schools to loan out to students. This special design was produced in an effort to combat theft.^[3] Owners can buy other interchangeable colored face-plates and slide-cases online. A kickstand-style slide case and other accessories are also available. Although graphing calculators have been called inexpensive in education reform research,^[4] the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition cost $139.00 as of 2013 on the TI online store, but this calculator has been discontinued in favor of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.

In 2011, TI launched the TI-84 Pocket.fr, a miniaturized version of the TI-84 Plus for the French market.^[5] In 2012, TI launched the TI-84 Plus Pocket SE, a miniaturized version of the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition for the Asian market.^[6]

In 2015, Texas Instruments released the TI-84 Plus T in the Netherlands. This model is very similar to the original TI-84 Plus, but features an LED to indicate whether or not the calculator is in Exam Mode. The hardware of the TI-84 Plus T is similar to the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition, with 96 16 kB pages of archive memory, for a total of 1540 kB. However, unlike the TI-84 Plus, the TI-84 Plus T does not allow users to execute assembly programs. The TI-84 Plus T has 2 different Exam Modes available with different levels of restrictiveness. The most restrictive level does not allow for any existing programs to be accessed, and does not allow any new programs to be created. This mode makes the LED blink green. The second, more moderate Exam Mode is the same, apart from three additional applications being allowed (PlySmlt2, Inequalz and Conics). This mode makes the LED blink orange.

TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition[edit]

The TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition was released in 2013 as the first Z80-based Texas Instruments graphing calculator with a color screen. It had a 320x240-pixel full-color screen, a modified version of the TI-84 Plus's 2.55MP operating system, a removable 1200mAh rechargeable lithium-ion battery and keystroke compatibility with existing math and programming tools.^[7] It had the standard 2.5mm I/O (DBUS) port and a mini-USB port for connectivity and charging. The calculator was praised for its high-resolution (relative to contemporary graphing calculators) color screen, which allowed new pedagogical approaches such as graphing multiple functions together in different colors. It was widely criticized for its slow performance by educators and hobbyists/hackers alike^{[citation needed]}; the performance was attributed to the calculator retaining its monochrome predecessors' CPU to drive a screen displaying 300 times as much image information. Two years later, it was replaced by the TI-84 Plus CE, but demonstrated the value of a color-screen TI-84 Plus-family calculator, and was embraced by the calculator hobbyist community. Notable third-party milestones included overclocking the device from 15 MHz to 22 MHz^[8] and the last version currently published of the third-party Doors CS shell.^[9]

TI-84 Plus CE and TI-84 Plus CE-T[edit]

The TI-84 Plus CE was publicly previewed by TI Education in January 2015,^[10] and released Spring 2015. The calculator retains the 320x240-pixel color screen, rechargeable battery, and key layout of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, while removing the 2.5mm I/O ('DBUS') linkport and moving the USB port and charging LED to the right side of the handheld. The calculator's OS 5.x is incompatible with the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition's hardware. In addition, the RSA signing key length has been increased to 2048 bits, making infeasible previous efforts to unlock the calculator to unrestricted third-party software development. The calculator has 154KB of user-accessible RAM and 3.0MB of Archive memory. It uses the eZ80 processor from Zilog, making all Z80 assembly programs from the previous TI 84 Plus series calculators incompatible. The CE was introduced in multiple colors (Classic (black), Silver Linings, Radical Red, True Blue, Denim (navy blue), Lightning (light blue), Plum Pi (purple)); Positively Pink (as of March 2015), Golden Ratio, and Bright White (as of June 2016) were added later, and further colors have since been released. Like the rest of the 84 Plus series, it is allowed on most standardized tests.^[11] The calculator comes programmed with seven different languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish). In 2016, the TI-84 Plus CE-T was released for the European educational market. The onlysignificant difference from the CE model is the addition of an LED that blinks while the calculator is in Press-to-Test mode.CE calculators revision M and later (manufactured on and after April 2019) contain an improved architecture with caching with a more recent flash chip (Winbond 25Q32JVSIQ) than on previous revisions, which contained a Winbond W29GL032C. Due to this change, more recent revisions have seen a significant improvement in overall speed. In 2020, TI Education announced its decision to remove support for assembly and C programming on these calculators in response to a video posted on YouTube detailing how to bypass the test mode on OS version 5.2.2. TI's response was widely considered unnecessary, and led to anger from users. The changes are reflected in OS version 5.5.1 for the European models and OS version 5.6 for the US models. Currently, an exploit called ArTIfiCE has been released that allows for native code execution through a bug in the CabriJR app.

Software[edit]

There are three different types of programs which can be downloaded or programmed into the calculators: TI-BASIC, Z80 assembly language, and Flash applications (also written in Z80 assembly). The TI84+CE is different in that programs are written in TI-BASIC, eZ80 assembly language, or in the C programming language. In addition, there are programs available that are able to compile or interpret other programming languages. Also, there are several languages developed by community members for the calculators, notably ICE, which is for the TI84+CE, and Axe, which is for the TI84+ and TI84+SE. There are a wide range of applications that this produces, from science classes, to games, to calculus to note taking (when put together with a separately sold keyboard).The TI-84 Plus Series is exactly like its predecessor in that it can be used on the SAT and ACT examinations as well as International Baccalaureate examinations. However, in some cases those administering the exam may reset the calculator's memory beforehand to prevent cheating through the use of built in programs or other data.^[12]

When OS 2.30 was initially released, users noticed the speed of graphing was greatly reduced. The explanation was that the update added asymptote checking in graphing.^[13]

In January 2006, Texas Instruments released v2.40 of the operating system for the TI-84 Plus series. The most noticeable addition to the new OS was the 'Press-To-Test' feature that allowed a teacher to disable any programs installed on the calculator, so they cannot be used on tests, etc.^[14] As of OS version 2.53MP which was released in February 2010, support was added for prettyprinted expressions. However, some programs stopped working correctly in this OS version, or were running slower.^[15] The current OS version is 2.55MP which was released in January 2011.^[16]

In July 2009, a community-made patch was released which allowed user-made operating systems to be easily uploaded onto the TI-84 plus series. Shortly after the patch was developed, the RSA keys for the calculator's operating system were factored via the General number field sieve (GNFS) algorithm, making a software patch unnecessary. In response to this, Texas Instruments released a newer hardware revision which only accepts other, stronger RSA keys, making it harder to load user-made operating systems or older TI operating systems (2.53MP and earlier). The community has found a way around the newest limitation by discovering a way to revert to older versions of the boot code.^[17]

Critics point out that the basic design of the TI-84 has not changed since it was released in 2004, contrary to the trend of rapid design change occurring in other areas of electronics manufacturing.^[18][19]

Technical specifications[edit]

• CPU:Zilog Z80 15 MHz, with 6 MHz compatibility mode.
• Flash ROM
  • Plus Edition: 480 KB user accessible of 1 MB
  • Silver Edition: 1.5 MB user accessible of 2 MB
  • Third-party software permits usage of FAT16-formatted USB drives^[20]
• RAM: 24 KB RAM user accessible of 128 KB (48 KB on newer models)
• Display
  • Text: -16-×|8| characters (normal font)
  • Graphics:
    • Plus Edition: 96 (0-95) × 64 (0-63) pixels, monochrome (software grayscale can be used) LCD
    • Plus C/CE: 320 × 240-pixel screen, 140 DPI, 16-bit color. Drawing pixel range: 0-164 x 0-264.
• I/O
  • Link port, 9.6 kbit/s
  • 50 button built-in keypad
• Power
  • Silver Edition: 4 AAA batteries plus 1 SR44SW or 303 silver oxide battery for backup
  • C Silver Edition and CE: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
• Integrated programming languages:TI-BASIC and machine code. Assembly requires a computer with a Z80 assembler or an on-calc assembler.

Programming[edit]

The TI-84 Plus is based heavily on its predecessor, the TI-83 Plus. As with all other calculators in the series, the TI-84 Plus supports native Z80 assembly as well as TI's interpreted, BASIC-like language for calculators, dubbed TI-BASIC. Programming for the TI-84 Plus is nearly identical to programming for the TI-83 Plus, with a few new functions in both TI-BASIC and the calculator's assembly support that do not exist on earlier models and OS versions. Several attempts have been made at creating a C to Zilog Z80 assembly assemblers, such as SDCC.^[21]

The TI84+CE series can be programmed in TI-BASIC, eZ80 assembly, or with the C programming language.

The TI-84 Plus calculators' dialect of TI-BASIC is the same as that of the TI-83 Plus series, but with a few more commands including ones for date and time.

Firmwares 5.5 and later have removed support for Assembly and C programs.^[22]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^USB Peripherals for the 84+ - ticalc.org
2. ^Multiple authors (3 October 2009). 'Topic: TI-84+ hardware change info (causing all APPs using extra RAM pages to crash)'. p. 1, Third post. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
3. ^School Bus Yellow for TI-84 Plus
4. ^Graphing Calculator Intensive Calculus
5. ^TI-84 Pocket.fr at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 April 2011)
6. ^TI-84 Plus Pocket SE at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 April 2012)
7. ^'Hands-On with the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Full Review - Cemetech - News'. Cemetech. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
8. ^'On overclocking a Ti 84+ SE - Cemetech | Forum | Electronics/Hardware Development [Topic]'. Cemetech. Retrieved 10 February 2021.'Overclocked CSE - Cemetech | Forum | Your Projects [Topic]'. Cemetech. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
9. ^'Doors CSE 8.2 Released | News | Cemetech'. Ceemtech. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
10. ^'TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator by Texas Instruments'. TI Education. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
11. ^'Get Started with the TI-84 Plus CE'. Cemetech. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
12. ^'TI-84 Plus Silver Edition'. Texas Instruments. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
13. ^'OS 2.30 Distinguishes Asymptotes'. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
14. ^'Press-to-Test for TI-84 Plus & TI-84 Plus Silver Edition'(PDF). Texas Instruments. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
15. ^TI-OS 2.53 Released for TI-84+ Family - ticalc.org
16. ^Release Notes for TI-84 PLUS OS Version 2.55MP
17. ^'Flashy, le programmateur de Boot Code TI-83+/84 est sorti!' (in French). Retrieved 7 February 2013.
18. ^'Cracks in the TI-84 calculator monopoly?'. youtube.com. CNN Business. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
19. ^McFarland, Matt (2 September 2014). 'The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly on classrooms'. Washington Post.
20. ^'Welcome to the usb8x homepage!'. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
21. ^http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7087
22. ^'TI-83 Premium CE/TI-84 Plus CE ASM/C Removal: Updates | News | Cemetech'. www.cemetech.net. Retrieved 28 August 2020.

External links[edit]

• ticalc.org The flagship hobbyist program- and game-hosting archives

Downloading apps and programs onto your TI-84 graphing calculator can extend its abilities, help you gain an edge over your competition in high-stakes tests, or even let you play games on your calculator.

This How-To guide applies to every TI-84, including the TI-84 Plus CE, TI-84 Plus, TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition calculators.

What you need:

• Any TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator
• Calculator Charging Cable
• TI Connect CE Software (Download Here)

Make sure you download and install TI Connect CE! You will not be able to transfer any programs to your calculator without it.

Best Places for Calculator Apps/Programs

• TICalc.org: TICalc.org is the best website for downloading math/science programs. Its selection is unrivaled, as anyone is able to upload their own program
• TI84CalcWiz.com: TI84CalcWiz is the best website for downloading games. It features the highest quality games available and ensures that the installation process is quick and painless.
• TI.com: The Texas Instruments website is the best for Apps designed by Texas Instruments. The selection on this website is small, but the apps it does have are among the best in terms of quality.

Using TICalc.org can be a bit confusing for beginners. Assuming you are looking for math programs, go to the file archives, and click on your calculator’s name. From here, click on basic, then math. You can download any program you find interesting by clicking on its name.

Sending Apps/Programs to Your Calculator

Now that you have found some programs, let’s put them on your calculator using TI Connect CE.

Step One: Open the file you downloaded, and drag the files inside of it onto your desktop (this will extract the files, as most come in the form a .zip file)

Step Two: Open TI Connect CE, and click the “Calculator Explorer” tab on the sidebar. Plug your calculator into your computer using your charging cable. Turn on your calculator.

Step Three: You should now see a list of all of the files on your calculator. Drag all of the calculator files into the list to send them to your calculator (in this example GIF, there is only one file, but send all of them if there is more than one calculator file).

A window should now pop up. Click “SEND” to send the program to your calculator.

If no window showed up when dragging in the files: you can manually browse to the file you downloaded by clicking “Actions” (in the top bar), and then “Add files from computer…”.

If everything worked out, the program/app should now be on your calculator!

Using Apps/Programs on Your Calculator

Programs and apps are stored under two different places on TI-84 calculators. If you are unsure whether the file you downloaded is an app or program, just check both locations.

• Apps: Press the [apps] button on your calculator, and select the app you would like to use from the menu.
• Programs: Press the [prgm] button on your calculator, select the program you want to use, and then press enter again to run it.

And that’s really all there is to it! Most programs are fairly self-explanatory, and math programs on TICalc.org have readme files that explain how to use them (and provide the developer’s contact information, if you ever need more help).

Ti 84 Calculator Batteries

But what if I want to remove a program or app? Don’t worry, this is an easy task to accomplish. Check out this article for more information: How to Delete a Program/App on a TI-84 Calculator