I had to send my 89 to TI when the LCD broke. The contrast was really messed up on one side. TI fixed it and sent it back to me free of charge :)

"I had to send my 89 to TI when the LCD broke"
- fisch2

I had the same problem, except i dropped my bookbag on the ground with my 89 in the front, completely breaking the lcd screen into 6 different peices. :-( Needless to say, i had to get a new one.

If mine was still useable, I might. The bottom 9 ROWS of pixles are... not working. Anything that sould be displayed isn't, but if there is alot on in the rest of the screen, some random lines show up.

If my warranty hadn't expired a couple years ago, I'd be using it now. My TI-86 stopped working a couple weeks ago (it won't even turn on). Looks like I'll finally be upgrading to an 89 now.

I'll be happy to take your broken 86! (JK) ;-)

My TI graphlink cable broke, when the port became loose. Although it was still in warrantee, I just opened it up and fixed it...

If you opened the calc up, then that means it's out of **warranty** now...hope you knew that ;)

Yeah, but he fixed it himself, and I salute you for that. Besides, you don't have to tell TI that you opened it up :)

it wasnt the calc, it was the graphlink

Oh, OK, then. I could care less if you open one of those, because they're like $10, but I would be a little more cautious before I opened a calculator (my 89 for example). Oh, and BTW, I asked TI if I could be a Beta Tester for the 89-Titanium, and they said I could! How great is that?! They said I can keep the calc when I'm done, too! I am so excited, they're sending it within a week! I can't wait...

not fair!

I'm asking!!

If this is true, send the TI-Calc.org staff a review as soon as it arives.

If you want to run any assembly or C programs on it, please contact me at Kevinattigccdotticalcdotorg (unmangle the e-mail address) or through the message board thread at http://pub26.ezboard.com/ ftichessteamhqfrm13. showMessage?topicID= 475.topic (remove the spaces). I'm coordinating the program porting efforts to the Titanium. Nearly all programs don't run as-is, but we (the third-party developers) are in the process of getting most of them to run, and we can use all beta-testers we can get.

(Likewise, anyone who wants to help us out with the porting efforts should contact me.)

I'll help, but why won't they run as-is? I thought the hardware (except for memory) was exactly the same?

There were hardware changes. (It is a HW3.) See the message board thread for more information.

I suppose there will be linking differences... in fact, I doubt any sound programs will ever work again, although I have seen USB sound cards... that would be interesting hooked up to a TI..........

When I asked they said beta testing was done internally...

WHAT?!?!?!?! I wish I could get a 84. Even if I had to pay for it. It could be valuble as a pre-release.

:(

Who did you call? What number?

When I emailed them they said "no". Actually they said beta testing was done internally, so the experience above is probably a special case, or TI was blowing me off. I only gave them my entire resume and life experience with TI calculators :P

The first time my link port broke, i sent it in out of warrenty, yet they still replaced it for free. The second time it broke, not 5 months later, i figured out that one of the connections had broken loose, so i opened it up, in the process, breaking the other two connections, thus having to solder all three connections back. To find out, they dont have any soulder over top of the connection, just under the connection, causing it to break very easily.