TI calculators

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with TI 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

Graph drawing commands too slow, forcing workarounds for games2025-01-29
Many common operations are very slow compared to modern models2024-05-12
Users must check parentheses and type nested expressions, making calculation slower than RPN2022-09-22
Couldn't find or set up a calculator-native assembler as a teenager2013-08-19