

Which to me means grayscale, good contrast and high resolution. That is one of the few things that the TI Inspire has that I really wish the other major players ( Classpad 330 and HP50-g ) had. I'd say the classpad might have most of those attributes although I'm not sure how ledgable the screen is. * I'm not particular on the size or shape as I'm probably not going to use it anywhere but home * Has all the features I need for my goal

* Not too terribly difficult to learn ( I'm okay with a medium learning curve ) I'd like a graphing calculator with these attributes: It was easy to use and if memory serves, easy to program. I had a Radio Shack EC-4020 calculator ( rebranded Casio fx-4000p ) in college that I loved. The latter I think covered everything up to partial derivitives, first order and higher order differential equations, laplace transforms and fourier series. * Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry ( 3 semesters ). * Fundamentals of Algebra and Trig ( hard to remember - I think one semester )

As far as the math I want to relearn, here are some of the classes I had before ( book titles ): I actually consider this to be fun but my wife thinks it sounds like agony :-) Obviously, all the electrical engineering concepts rely heavily on math. My goal is to jump back into my old college textbooks and learn everything I once knew but since have forgotton. I eventually catch on but it just takes me longer. Also, I was never the quickest kid to catch on to the math involved although I managed to do average. I jumped right into programming without doing any professional work with my engineering degree. I'm a 44 year old computer programmer with a degree in electrical engineering technology. Let me start by saying that I don't feel too particularly biased toward any certain brand of calculator.
