TI-83 calculators

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with TI-83 calculators, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Outdated tools only run on Linux and WSL cannot reach the serial port2024-07-29
Functions and keywords must be picked from token menus, making entry cumbersome2020-05-21
Typing expressions and navigating the menus takes far longer than the actual problem solving2019-09-24
Entering fractions and exponents requires counting parentheses, causing mistakes2019-09-23