30+ year old technology

>30+ year old technology
>still costs like $90
how does Texas Instruments get away with this, and more importantly how can i get away with it too? how does a business go from the ground up to reaching the level of monopoly and exclusive contract bullshit that TI has?

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holy shit they haven't changed since when i was in college circa 2006

its small and has the exact software necessary to teach math.

Buy a used one on ebay for $50 lol

Lol seriously? These things were this much when I was in middle school and im 32 now. You can buy used ones but the fact a new one is as much as it was decades ago is amazing indeed.

Good memories resolving hydraulic regimen with that bad boy.

I actually mentioned this a few days ago. I started high school in 2008 and the TI-83’s price hasn’t changed at all.

TI owns the patents on the integrated circuit you use in literally everything you dumbass.

I remember my freshman year of high school in 2012 the tryhard pajeets bought the literally $300 LED screen TIs for calculating breeding rates of a population (basic multiplication using a formula) in honors biology. One of them bought one and the next week three more did too

it's the same reason why publishers make fuck tons of money off of useless textbooks- cronyism. The good news is that these things are basically the Nokia Brick phone of calculators. I still have one that I stole from some kid in high school 12 years ago and I'm positive it would still work if i changed the batteries. these things can be passed down generation to generation.