TI-57’s 50 Steps.

[Matt Agajanian]

Hi all.

It seems to me that 50 steps on an AOS programmable seems quite limiting. I’ve seen some sample programs in a book called Programmable Calculators which covered the 57 and HP-33E/C. I’m not sure of the extent of its implementation, but I remember seeing fully merged keystrokes like STO 5 and I think the conditionals were merged with its transfer step merged with it.

Yes, yes, the 58/59 were much roomier for programming, so why not get a 58/58C instead.

Although, since a 100 step/10 register program was possible, case in point, the 56, why didn’t TI give the 57 the same capacity of the 56? Combined with fully merged keystrokes, that could have been a nice entry level calc.