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Slowest Graphing Calculator Ever?

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Is the Sharp EL-9200 the worst graphic calculator ever brought to market? Slowest Graphing Calculator Ever? Join me while I explore it's speed, have some fun with some comparisons and try and make sense of just who would have bought and been happy with this calculator which performs like a wind-up toy!
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17 апр 2021

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@martinmeyer2008 3 года назад

Between this video and my Sharp EL-556G fix video, the first video to hit 100 likes - I will be donating a HP Prime to a random person who has left a comment, so competition time!

@martinmeyer2008 3 года назад

On reviewing this, I see that the menu's take a short while (< 1 second) to clear, so the screen update is not super fast. I wonder if that is possibly the reason for the delay in calculation answers, it maybe is is doing them instantly, but the delay is getting them onto the screen? If anybody knows, please let me know :-)

@petermikus2363 3 года назад

Hello i just found you channel trough calculator cture and you have some interesting stuff here instant subscribe also is the prime giveaway still going or no?

@martinmeyer2008 3 года назад

Hiya, thanks for the support. Yes, the Prime giveaway is indeed still happening - thanks for the comment, you've entered into the draw :-)

@lx95020 2 года назад

if Dracula was your math professor.....?

@massimilianocb 2 года назад

I had the SHARP EL-9200 in the 90' and I used it during all my Economics University for Math, Statistics and Accounting exams. I am so grateful to this calculator! It has a lovely and simple programming basic where I could develop some advanced scripts. The SHARP EL-9200 and the Spectrum 48k are the best and more precious machines that I have ever had

@martinmeyer2008 2 года назад

Its nice to hear that some people liked this...I'm sorry that my video puts a negative spin on things! Much like yourself, I love the older tech, and literally switch between calculators in my collection regularly, never sitting with one for a long time...except my HP which stays out for my real job :-)

@massimilianocb 2 года назад

@@martinmeyer2008 no worries, I totally agree with you, it was really slow :) and your tests and comparitions are brilliant. In my experience it has not so much memory too so every script program I was writing and saving, I was obliged to delete all the others to save memory. But anyway, if you have a bit of time, I advice you to check the programming basic of this calculator. Are many years I was looking for a video or even better an emulator (it doesn't exists :(((( ) of the Sharp EL-9200 and finally you reviewed it and I am happy. I have a big nostalgia and good remembering of it. Thanks!

@l1233799 3 года назад

I had this at school and I was first kid to have a graphic calculator. Of course shortly after everyone else got the fancier Texas Instruments. This got me through my high school, college and even my first few jobs.

@martinmeyer2008 3 года назад

Nice! What country? We were always limited by calculator rules, so I often had a "standard" one for school exams, or just slipped by better one by, and then had the fancier one for day-to-day school etc. But, like to so many things back then, South Africa had a very limited range....I don't think I even knew these existed back in the day!

@l1233799 3 года назад

@@martinmeyer2008 UK. It was early enough before it was common place and rules had to be implemented during exam like doing a reset in front of the examiners

@joelyao7680 Год назад

Me too! I had this at school.

@diskoballlmao7243 Год назад

The worst graphing calculator in the world is Casio FX 85 ex and reasons are here 1. Thing can't do graphs 2. can't go above 9.999999999999E99 3. It bugs sometimes 4. Most of the graphing functions on it are missing 5. Doesn't flow in the dark 6. Gives me wrong answers like Graphing calculators: 6.08979e102 Casio FX 85 ex: MATH ERROR 7. REALLY WEAK 8. Can't take notes 9. They advertised it as scientific calculator 10. Graphing is not there Hp prime: graph, sin(number) Graphing calculators: graph, sin(number) Casio FX 85 ex: sin(number)

@martinmeyer2008 Год назад

Let me get one and see how bad it is!! Stay tuned :-)

@MrUNCLESAM84 2 года назад

You speak slower than the calculator 😂🤣😂🤣.

@martinmeyer2008 2 года назад

That's valuable feedback - I will try and be more lively! But yes, I generally do "drone on"...you're not the first to notice :-)

@SomeNot 2 года назад

Seems much worse than the competition, which explains why it didnt sell as well. Sharp still make graphing calculators but I’ve not seen anyone look at them.

@martinmeyer2008 2 года назад

I need to check more thoroughly, but I don't think they make anything in the same range as the HP Prime or the top end TI's....I'm not even sure if they have one with a colour screen?

@qwertykeyboard5901 Год назад

Lol. The Casio fx6300g is still worse. That thing is literally just one of their programmable scientific calculators with extra pixels grafted onto the screen. The graph area is like, ~30x30 _pixels._ Seriously one of Casio's worst products. I have one of the Chinese clones. While I absolutely LOVE my clone, it's still a bad calculator. Any student that had to use one of these would of hated it. My clone gets used as a "programmers challenge", with stuff like a CRC-8 checksum algorithm and mandelbrot set demo written for it. Really fun programming on it! But for any math? No thank you! The only thing the official calculator would have going for it is better build quality.

@martinmeyer2008 Год назад

DiskoballMA072 has challenged me with the Casio FX85...but I'll get both and see just how bad things can go!

@martinmeyer2008 3 месяца назад

I just got one and I hate it.....it is idiotic how they've made it. I thought it would be a rival to my Sharp 5120, but no, its a joke!

@qwertykeyboard5901 3 месяца назад

@@martinmeyer2008 Yeah it's... Pretty bad. I'm guessing the people at Casio must've been drunk when they came up with the idea. Maybe it was a cost thing, like the Commodore VIC 20.