Texas Instruments VOY200/PWB Graphing Calculator
- Flash technology allows electronic upgradability for future Handheld Software Applications
- Memory: 188K bytes of RAM, 2.5 MB of user available FLASH ROM
- Intuitive icon desktop for easy navigation and organization of Handheld Software Applications
- QWERTY keyboard for typing
- Large easy-to-ready 128 x 240 pixel LCD
- Preloaded with popular applications, including The Geometer's Sketchpad
- Accepts StudyCards for history, foreign language, English, and more
- Numeric and symbolic equations; factor, solve, differentiate, integrate
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 10 x 2 x 10.25 inches |
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Item Weight | 13.8 ounces |
ASIN | B00006D2Q1 |
Item model number | VOY200/PWB |
Batteries | 4 AAA batteries required. (included) |
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #445,470 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products) #207 in Graphing Office Calculators #987 in Basic Office Calculators |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | July 9, 2002 |
Manufacturer | Texas Instruments |
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CAS graphing calculator with QWERTY keyboard
From the Manufacturer
The Voyage 200 let you easily customize your handheld by adding new functions through software applications. The Computer Algebra System (CAS) enables you to manipulate mathematical expressions and functions (factor, solve, differentiate, integrate) and easily evaluate mathematical expressions symbolically or numerically.
Differential-equation features let you compute exact symbolic solutions to many 1st- and 2nd-order ordinary differential equations. Solve single differential equations or systems of them using Euler or Runga Kutta methods, and graph slope fields and direction fields. Pretty Print allows mathematical expressions to appear on the display the same way they look on a blackboard or in a textbook.
With the StudyCards App your TI-89 or Voyage 200 can be used for almost all classes: history, foreign languages, English, math, and others. The easy-to-use PC software allows you to create StudyCards for specific subjects and topics. Review topics between classes, on the bus, and at home, with the press of a button.
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Customers like the quality, value, ease of use, and performance of the calculator. For example, they mention it's an amazing tool, it saves time and effort, and it does the job fine. Some appreciate the qwerty keyboard, and display. That said, opinions are mixed on training, and condition.
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Customers are satisfied with the quality of the calculator. They mention it's an amazing tool, excellent for anyone with a mathematics or physics background, and the best programmable and symbolic algebra equipment ever made. It offers a good set of functions and a larger screen. Customers also say it'll be useful for an engineering student and is powerful.
"...It is programmable both in TI Basic and in 68000 assembly, the latter of which has lead to a rather impressive library of available games and..." Read more
"...benefit from things such as the fact that the calculator can present answers in terms of Pi and not just the decimal approximations...." Read more
"...Engineer, Math Major or Teacher, the Voyage 200 has plenty of available applications on-line. Most of them are free to the user...." Read more
"...its more traditionally styled case is less conspicuous, its features are easier to use, and it's manual is better written and available in hard copy...." Read more
Customers find the value of the office product to be excellent, worth the money, and great. They also say they saved a lot of money by buying it.
"...A bargain price for something so hard to find now." Read more
"...a year and I still firmly believe that the TI 200 Voyager was worth every penny." Read more
"...Wider screen was less confusing for me. Worth the extra couple of bucks." Read more
"Product is good, came in on time but batteries were already loaded in which leads me to believe it may have been a display model...." Read more
Customers find the ease of use of the calculator to be a real credit to its designers. They say it saves time and effort in figuring out large and difficult equations. Customers also say it makes calculus easy. They mention that the setup is similar but better than the TI-89, and that it does as expected and arrived quickly.
"...It took a little while to get used to but the setup is similar (but better) than the TI-89 (and of course the predecessor TI-92 PLUS)...." Read more
"...What a fantastic calculator! Its ease of use is a real credit to its designers...." Read more
"...and has graphing capability, with an expanded keyboard that makes for easier use...." Read more
"...It saves time and effort in figuring out large and difficult equations, and it's not limited for math but it's also a life saver in chemistry and..." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the performance of the calculator. They mention that it does the job fine, is fully operational, and has similar functions to the ti92+. Some are happy with the upgrade and are excited with their new calculator.
"...The packing was good and it arrived undamaged and fully operational. The unit was complete including the TI Connect cable, batteries, and software...." Read more
"...A couple of the LCD sectors on the screen have failed. Although it still works fine, I decided it had served me well and went ahead and bought..." Read more
"Works correctly and it was delivered on a very good time." Read more
"...But it does the job fine." Read more
Customers like the qwerty keyboard. They say it's awesome, helpful, and makes typing in equations a breeze. The large display and the keyboard increase typing speed tremendously. The product also has a word processor, graphic calculator, function solver, and cool software.
"...'s "pretty printing" functionality, the large display, and the QWERTY keyboard. For an example of "pretty printing", imagine you enter in 5/(4*3)...." Read more
"...But anyways the software is cool. The querty keyboard and the graphic platform make is so much easier to navigate...." Read more
"...It makes typing in equations a breeze...." Read more
"...QWERTY keyboard is essential if you want to do programming - doing this on multi-function keyboard of TI-89 is close to impossible, and PC tools..." Read more
Customers like the display of the office product. They say it has a great display, is beautiful, and is well designed.
"...Battery life is great. All in all, this is a very well designed unit. The “Solve” feature is great for electronic circuitry design...." Read more
"Good shape." Read more
"...It even has excel!... word processor, graphic calc, function solver... anyway, is amazing. I highly recommend this product." Read more
"...Beautiful calculator, very powerful. Bulky but necessary, wish that they could redesign its cover like sliding it. (like the TI-83, 84, 89)...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the training. Some mention it was well worth the upfront training, and their grades and understanding of the curriculum have improved dramatically. They say the manual is worth its weight in gold, and made all their classes less stressful. However, others say that it comes with a thin, almost useless manual, and the documentation is shockingly bad.
"...This device is well suited for anyone in the scientific/technical arenas...." Read more
"...Really, it is just plain awful. It comes with a thin, almost useless manual, and you'll have to read through 20+ pages just to find out how to add..." Read more
"...This manual is worth its weight in gold...." Read more
"...The pdf documentation is bad too, since I CANNOT PRINT the necessary pages." Read more
Customers are mixed about the condition of the office product. Some mention it's in perfect condition, while others say it'll be defective.
"Condition is good besides the screen. Given the price and listed condition I was expecting some damage...." Read more
"...The calculator itself looked unused but the entire package does not feel brand new as it described in the posting...." Read more
"...was no problem with the arrival of the product and this was in perfect condition, I recommend it." Read more
"Came defective. Seller never responded to emails for a return or to help." Read more
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All of that being said, I decided to venture into the TI camp, if only because they still take calculators seriously. I was dubious, however, because their machines seem designed for high school students rather than professional scientists/engineers, and this is reflected in the lack of high-end software packages available for them. Nonetheless, I don't think since the HP41 line have any calculators attracted so much interest or had so large a community built around them as have the recent TIs.
The Voyage 200 is something of a tour de force. It is based on the Motorola 68000, the same processor found in the original Macintosh and many other popular computers. It is programmable both in TI Basic and in 68000 assembly, the latter of which has lead to a rather impressive library of available games and applications that all run amazingly quickly given their platform. This whole software world is somewhat muddled by the fact that TI has released a series of operating system upgrades and patches for this calculator and wading the compatibility waters is very confusing for the uninitiated. (For example, for HP aficianados, it is quite possible to run an extremely well done RPN interface on this calculator, but it requires that you find & download both the RPN assembly program and HW2 AMS 2 TSR support (h220xTSR) if you're using the latest version of the operating system, AMS 2.09. When was the last time you worried about what operating system your calculator was running??)
Another troublesome point about this calculator is the documentation is shockingly bad. Really, it is just plain awful. It comes with a thin, almost useless manual, and you'll have to read through 20+ pages just to find out how to add 1+1. Haven't they ever heard of a "getting started quickly" guide? There are several hundred pages of manuals on CD and on the web, but in general, there are written very poorly indeed. Coming from the world of professionally written documentation for systems like Mathematica and Matlab, I realize just how lucky we are that those companies take documentation very seriously and write far simpler manuals for much more complex systems.
All in all, however, I think the Voyage 200 is the best thing going in the calculator world today. It's wonderful to once again have a calculator whose capabilities are as much fun to discover as it is to use. I doubt I'll ever find time for assembly programming on this beast, but it warms my heart to know that I could.
For Calculus operations, you'll benefit from the built-in Computer Algebra System (CAS) and the ability to do symbolic operations (for example, enter an equation such as A=B/C and ask the calculator to rewrite it for you in terms of C [C=A*B]), as well as solving indefinite integrals.
Calculus and Trigonometry operations both benefit from things such as the fact that the calculator can present answers in terms of Pi and not just the decimal approximations.
All operations benefit from the calculator's "pretty printing" functionality, the large display, and the QWERTY keyboard. For an example of "pretty printing", imagine you enter in 5/(4*3). The calculator would echo this back to you as a 5 with a division bar over 4 * 3, on two separate lines. As you can imagine, this is a life-saver with complex equations where it can get very difficult to mentally follow all of the nested parenthesis and to be sure that the calculator properly interpreted what you were trying to tell it.