TI-89 Titanium and Snow Leopard

leopard-user1 · leopard-user1 #1 (**permalink**)

09-14-2009, 08:59 PM

I have a TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator, and a mid-2008 17" MBP running SL. I was just wondering if there was a suitable device driver for OS 10.6 and a TI-89 titanium. I downloaded Texas Instruments' latest beta release (1.7) and the latest version it supports is 10.4. Sure enough, it installed and worked for a few minutes, except that it crashed every time I tried to do anything with the screen. Now, it crashes on opening! My question is: Is there a suitable application that would enable me to use my graphing calculator with my MBP? I don't want to have to use my mom's PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11, seeing as she has a 90GB HDD and about 10 gigs left on it, and I only use my MBP.

Thanks in advance.

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

09-14-2009, 10:46 PM

You're going to have to wait on TI to provide drivers for Snow Leopard - which I doubt they will have anytime soon since they don't even support Leopard!

The best answer I can give you is to install Windows on your MBP. If you have a copy of Windows XP SP2 (see BC instructions for compatibility) you can download the free VirtualBox from Sun and run XP in a virtual machine. Then you can use your TI with the latest version of their software for Windows.

Or, borrow your mother's machine. Buy her a new hard drive.

Regards.

leopard-user1 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 27, 2009 Location: New York, NY Posts: 531 Mac Specs: 17" MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, not unibody	09-14-2009, 08:59 PM I have a TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator, and a mid-2008 17" MBP running SL. I was just wondering if there was a suitable device driver for OS 10.6 and a TI-89 titanium. I downloaded Texas Instruments' latest beta release (1.7) and the latest version it supports is 10.4. Sure enough, it installed and worked for a few minutes, except that it crashed every time I tried to do anything with the screen. Now, it crashes on opening! My question is: Is there a suitable application that would enable me to use my graphing calculator with my MBP? I don't want to have to use my mom's PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11, seeing as she has a 90GB HDD and about 10 gigs left on it, and I only use my MBP. Thanks in advance. (from scienceteecher.com) 17" MacBook Pro, OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
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chscag #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,998 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	09-14-2009, 10:46 PM You're going to have to wait on TI to provide drivers for Snow Leopard - which I doubt they will have anytime soon since they don't even support Leopard! The best answer I can give you is to install Windows on your MBP. If you have a copy of Windows XP SP2 (see BC instructions for compatibility) you can download the free VirtualBox from Sun and run XP in a virtual machine. Then you can use your TI with the latest version of their software for Windows. Or, borrow your mother's machine. Buy her a new hard drive. Regards.
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