Re: TI-H: Simple lock for TI calculator battery cover!

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Re: TI-H: Simple lock for TI calculator battery cover!


Simplist prank is probably to:
get hold of a calc
write a few lines of TI-Basic that realy do nothing, except clear the screen
run the programme, and hand it back...

they'll think it's off an not touch it till the next day, and their batts will be
affectivly dead

Michiel Trimpe wrote:

> IF we're talkin about pranks it is better to just set up a time-consuming TSR,
> just a bit different from the rest, and thus screw up someone's calc and forcing
> them to reset it.
>
> Jeff Simpson wrote:
>
> >         Thanx all for the 86 sound info. And thanx to Andreas Ess for
> > PlayWav and to Andrew Waser for porting it to 86wav.
> >
> >         Battery Cover Lock:
> >
> >         I don't know why I never thought of this before, but here it is,
> > just in case you guys didn't, either. On my 86, I was looking for a
> > place to hide things (paper with passwords written on them,
> > answers to tests, etc), when I noticed the space in the clip on the
> > battery cover. I took a piece of paper and cut it to the width of the
> > space and folded it to fit. It fit, alright, so tightly that I couldn't open
> > it! I had to use a flathead to get it out. This gave me the idea to
> > make a skinnier one, so that it could be easily pried out, and to
> > make it fit deeper and fashion it from black construction paper, so
> > that it would be unnoticable. Any person turning on my calculator
> > and seeing the ASE password prompt, MIGHT think to remove the
> > batteries, some knowing that it would erase the memory....they
> > would find the cover "stuck" and give up. Result? Memory intact!
> >
> >         Materials:
> >
> >                 Black Construction Paper
> >                 Glue (To glue the folded paper shut, so it doesn't fall apart)
> >                 Scissors
> >                 Something sharp (small flathead) to pull it out again
> >
> >         If anybody likes this amazingly simple idea, let me know, I
> > figured that when worst comes to worst, you'd at least get a kick
> > out of it!
> >
> >          ,;;
> >        ,;;'   Jeff Simpson
> >   ,  ,;;'     fuck@psouth.net
> >    ';;'       http://www.psouth.net/~fuck/me/in/the/goat/ass
> >   .' ',
> >
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