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Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
elcobbola  Account Info
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I don't see why someone would want to open their calculator(s). TI makes very good products and there really isn't a reason to risk a $100+ calculator just to "upgrade" or fool around with it.

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 01:38 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
The_Professor  Account Info
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Two good reasons to mess around with a calculator are: a) to add a backlight which could be very useful, and b) to overclock it, if you want to be able to graph very fast and/or make BASIC programs run faster.
Also, only the 92(+)/89 and 86 [85?] cost $100+, and it is fun to mess around with electronic devices.

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 02:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
usaar33  Account Info

a third reason is to void you're warranty...everyone loves to do that :)

BTW, according to the guidlines, I can use any swear word I want, except f**k, or s**t.

Other swear words are heard often on US TV

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 03:08 GMT

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Disco_Stu  Account Info

While most swear words can be heard on US television, you almost never hear other words like racial slurs (unless it's a documentary on racism or something).

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 21:43 GMT


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Nick Disabato  Account Info
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In a Supreme Court ruling in the sixties, a justice declared, "I can't define obscenity, but I know it when I see it."

--BlueCalx

Reply to this comment    16 November 1999, 01:30 GMT


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Bryan Rabeler  Account Info
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Stop being legalistic.

Reply to this comment    16 November 1999, 03:40 GMT


Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Nikku-kun Account Info

Well, I'll offer a tidbit of advice: Stop being whiny.

Reply to this comment    17 November 1999, 03:29 GMT

Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Bryan Rabeler  Account Info
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Or how about: stop being such a follower...

Reply to this comment    17 November 1999, 15:44 GMT


Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
lord_nightrose Account Info
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MUHAHAHAHA!

Reply to this comment    22 October 2001, 22:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
AgntM13 Account Info

there are actually seven words you can't say on tv, ask George Carlin, but I like your thinking

Reply to this comment    19 November 1999, 02:44 GMT


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usaar33  Account Info

I'll ask you..
what are they?

Reply to this comment    20 November 1999, 20:14 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Brian Sipos  Account Info

risk makes it that much more fun :)

Reply to this comment    16 November 1999, 05:30 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
chrismtb  Account Info
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it is fun and interesting to open up electronic devices like remote controls, mouses (computer type), R/C cars, etc. I havent taken apart my calculator yet because I just bought it, and it would be bad if I broke it. I did however take apart my old TI scientific calc, but it didnt have too much in it. Taking apart stuff usually does not do damage, unless you fool around with sensitive things or dont put it back together right.

Reply to this comment    23 November 1999, 21:41 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Etec  Account Info
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Hey, My link port wore down completely, I opened it desoddered the old one and put another one in from an old broken 83. Its also fun to void the warrenty, how would ti know unless you put a foren object in it.

Reply to this comment    25 November 1999, 17:09 GMT

Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Matthew Hernandez  Account Info
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I didn't think that many calculators would have been broken when opened up. I mean, it would take a little more than exposure to regular air to mess something up! Even touching the microchips wouldn't really effect the operation of them! Well, unless you have some really greasy/buttery/dirty/nasty/etc. fingers! But, I don't think people will actually endanger their calculator!
I personally haven't opened up any of my calcs, but have been thinking about it since I don't use my regular old 83 anymore (ROM v1.07--WORST version ever made!). So, that might come some weekend that I don't have any homework--commonly known as the great weekend of SUMMER!

Matt H.

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 01:38 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Derrick  Account Info
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Well I opened my TI-30 Solar up before. I was really bored in class and had a bunch of time to do nothing. First I unscrewed the screws, took all the chips out ( There was one ) and then tried to put it back together. Unfortuantlly it didn't work when I put it back together so I just threw it away. Since then, I have never opened any electronic device ( Except my computer ). Hope this has helped.

- Derrick

Reply to this comment    20 November 1999, 18:26 GMT


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Etec  Account Info
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Maby you messed up the connections between the chip and the circuit board. Be careful when removing chips.

This comming from someone who has taken apart almost every electronic device he ever got. The only things I havent taken apart would be the tv(danger of getting shocked, even if you unplug it), monitor(same as tv), printer (very easy to put off balence, and the microwave, (if you put something back wrong it might kill you).

Reply to this comment    25 November 1999, 17:15 GMT

Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
akadajet
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Nope, Opening it sounds stupid to me. I would rather keep my calculator up and running.

Also, don't you think there should be the option "No, and I STILL broke it." :-)

~Jonathan Taylor (AKA da JET)

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 01:48 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
The_Professor  Account Info
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Opening up your calculator might seem like a better idea if you have two calculators, so that if you break it, then you would still have a calc to use for school. If you only have one calc than it is not such a fun idea, especially if that calc happens to be a 92/89.

Right now I have only one calc, a TI-86.

Reply to this comment    15 November 1999, 02:22 GMT

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Omega72  Account Info
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It okay to open up your calc, just as long as you can get the thing back together and it still functions. And hey, if it doesn't function in the first place, what's the loss. I opened my 85 when it got a huge line in the screen and it got annoying. I tried to fix it to no avail.

Reply to this comment    16 November 1999, 05:12 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Robbie Rothermel Account Info
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Umm, yes, there should be an option "No and still broke it." Yes, I broke my calc without even cracking the case. I was playing Penguins on my TI-86 and the game crashed. No biggie, pull out a battery, wait a few seconds, put the battery back in, turn the calc on. I turned the calc on and now screen showed up. Once again, no biggie: turn up the contrast. I turned up the contrast; or, I tried to turn up the contrast. Blank screen.

I'm going to get new batteries and see if they help, but I doubt they will; I was playing Penguins before the calc broke and so I think the batteries are Ok. So you see, I'm the one who has not opened my calc and still broken it.

Reply to this comment    19 November 1999, 18:28 GMT

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Capt.Bubba  Account Info

I had the same problem, take out your batterys (including the backup one, you'll need a small phillips screwdriver) and let it sit for a while ( let mine sit overnight because i was tired) put the main batterys in and crank it up, the mem-cleared screan should come up, then put the backup battery back in and screw it down.
this clears all your programs, so have a graph link handy afterwards (ps. anyone know how to get graph link to work w/ a computer with the serial port on com 5?)


Capt. Bubba

Reply to this comment    23 November 1999, 02:03 GMT

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aoejedi  Account Info
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COM5? what do you have on the other 4?

Reply to this comment    28 January 2000, 20:36 GMT


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calcvids Account Info
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COM1--TI-83
COM2--TI-85
COM3--TI-86
COM4--TI-81?!
COM5--TI-82

Reply to this comment    10 March 2010, 06:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
86er

It has to be 8 hours. Same thing happened to me. Since you left it out overnight, it worked.

Reply to this comment    12 January 2001, 03:01 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
Mono Account Info

that happens to me to. I just hit the contrast button for a long time and it goes back to normal without loseing memory

Reply to this comment    24 November 1999, 21:05 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
saywhat97  Account Info
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That would be a good idea. I managed to break 2 calcs, without droping it or opening it. The first, a TI-86, I was testing a game I was working on, and the screen suddenly went blank. I thought, "ok, I just crashed it again. I'll take the batteries out overnight and try again." It didn't work, called tech support, and after doing several things, they told me to send it in. This was in February of this year.

Then in August, I was upgrading the rom of my TI-89 and I walked away from the computer(I heard an upgrade could take up to 45 mins). Came back and the screen was blank. I thought APD shut it off, and tried to turn it on. I ended up sending that one in too.

Has anyone else have two calcs die for no apparent reason?

Reply to this comment    24 November 1999, 00:06 GMT


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cyder stopar Account Info

I almost broke my calc one time but i fixed it. I have an 86 and it froze while playing a game( i for get which one) so i tried taking out all of the batteries (even teh backup one) and it still didn't work, my screen was still blank. then i thought that if i knew how to reset it without without looking at the screen it might work. i just looked on my ti86 emulator on my pc and saw what to push. i reset it, turned up the contrast and boom, it worked, i think that might fix other peoples calcs too.
ps. i did try messing with the contrast before hand so that wasn't the only thing wrong with it, it still stayed blank until i reset it then messed with the contrast. maybe the video memory got full with 0's or something.

Reply to this comment    24 November 1999, 17:13 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever opened up your calculator?
brainwalker Account Info

it's pretty cool if you have a calc to spare, i'm going to buy an 83 or 85 just to take it apart.

Reply to this comment    24 November 1999, 02:44 GMT

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