I've had to get a new calculator 3 times using the warranty.

Well you certainly got your money's worth.

I know this is not related to calculators but anyway...

It's even more so getting your money worth when you need the warranty on a $3,000+ Laptop Computer.

I almost did and Im sure some others of you have had the same problem. The calculator will randomly copy programs and call the output z3___ or some similar name. the program wont run, is the exact size of some other program, and resets the calculator occasionaly. I had to reinstall the OS to fix it-- has anyone else had this problem on the 83+!?

Never here!!!! :-O What OS version? That's the strangest bug I've ever heard of...

it's actually happened to me quite a few times as well. I think it usually happens with tetris in mirage.

the Z,1. program is created when MirageOS runs an archived program

yup, and when you're using a basic program, and you come to an input screen and you use [2nd][MODE] to quit, the program Z,1. shows up.

All my programs are archived and hidden in MirageOS and it dosn't do anything like that. Oh, well. I don't know why BASIC programs always crash my calculator in MirageOS either.

Nope, never have. Nothing really bad has ever happened to my 83+. I'ts been dropped a few times, and the + button has a habit of sticking a little, but that's it.

-TrumpetMan

A few of the keys on my 83+ stick too, but I got it used from eBay, and the poor thing had deep scratches on the back, so it's actually pretty good that it only has a few sticky keys.

My 83+'s + button sticks, too. Is there something about the placement of the + button that makes it susceptible to sticking, or some IPE/procedural problem?

One of my friends got an 83+ (at WalMart?) and it dosn't have buttons that stick. Neither does my 83+SE. It might be a fluke. Although one of my other friends has a 83+SE with a hard-to-press [ENTER] key.

I couldn't, even if I wanted to. I got my 89 off eBay two years ago...

Actually, that would be, "If I had not voided it." but that is close enough.

-W-

has anymone mentioned that the last option should be "It was useless, so I have no calculator?"

um, physically my calc is fine, electricly however my calc has gotten to the point where it crashes 2 or more times a day. The circuits must be screwed, had it for almost 3 years so thats way past warranty. One crash made my screen turn a bright blue,the whole screen, weird. I have a 83+.

you should figure out how that happened and make a game out of it or something

Maybe it was the "Blue Screen of Death"...or is that just on computers...anyway...

LOL!!! Maybe Microsoft developed *that* version of the TI-OS...

How the heck could the screen turn bright blue???!!!

My "friend" actually complained that his calculator was beyond the repair I could make... I had him send it to TI, and he got mad. I don't see why, his calculator was in a horrible state of abuse (like scratchings all over the moulding, missing buttons, etc.), and it was right after the HW2 calcs came out, so he got a brand new calculator with the updated hardware, for free.... and he got mad!! g*r^4

Who could complain about an upgrade for free?