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College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything … but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)
tbf they are “TEXAS” instruments, this is very texas of them.
If you never sat around in class playing Pokémon on your TI-84 Plus after you finished your math exam earlier than the rest, you have no idea what true power feels like.
You know you won capitalism when you start manufacturing weapons. Take notes people.
Good ol’ “aerospace and defense” industry. The backbone of every healthy society.
The largest teat in the whole country.
TI sold their defense segment business to Raytheon in the late 90s. I don’t think they make missiles anymore.
As the defense industry consolidated, TI sold its defense business to the Raytheon Company in 1997 for $2.95 billion. […] [1]
References
- “Texas Instruments”. Wikipedia. Published: 2025-01-04T02:02Z. Accessed: 2025-01-09T19:01Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments#Missiles_and_laser-guided_bombs.
- §“History”. §“Defense Electronics”. §“Divestiture to Raytheon”. ¶1.
- “Texas Instruments”. Wikipedia. Published: 2025-01-04T02:02Z. Accessed: 2025-01-09T19:01Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments#Missiles_and_laser-guided_bombs.
Calculators? Did you mean “machines that can run DOOM”
Drug Wars, 100%. Taught me everything I needed to know about quaaludes.
This goes all the way back to ancient Roman times (and earlier).
Roman Engineers: I guess we making bridges now.
Also Roman Engineers: What the fuck! Onagers? Scorpions? Siege towers?!
Diversification
Texas Instruments of mass destruction.
Ryan Kelly has great videos regarding this very content: https://youtube.com/shorts/zHUgjC9-FUY
To their credit, TI will stop making calculators when the Earth becomes uninhabitable.
