Whenever I need help with my calc, I come here. I've never had to use TI support, thank goodness.

I have never had a use for TI support, because they don't support games! Plus they do not have much support for z80 programing. (to my knowledge :)

I had a glitch once and had to have the whole calculator replaced because all it would do is turn on and clear ram and turn off again. Everything else has been asking them why the software dosn't work.

ouch

yeah... my 83+ under OS 1.15 crahed while "Defragmenting...". Had to pay ~US$60 and live without it for a week. That was after they gave me about three fixes (On-Clear and On-Del).

what do those particular key combos do?

On+Del forces the calculator to accept a new OS

On+Clear alows you to turn your calculator back on without losing your memory if you just pulled your batteries. Beyond that On+Clear has reserected my calculator from many random crashes.

In edition On+Alpha will run a FLASH check if the OS crashed

WOW! All I knew about was ON+Del to accept a new OS.

Other than having the small problem of whenever I tapped my original 83+ too hard the RAM cleared, I haven't had many problems at all... I usually fix problems with other people's calculators at my school... Which usually consists of hitting the "on" and/or "clear keys" repeatedly and as a last resort taking out a battery... Ah, home (school?) calculator repair...

im the geek in school and i am repeadedly tipped over in history class. I also carry my calc in my pocket, which is a bad combination. By the time i get to math, it is usually all messed up, with random characters and lines and I could usually fix it to the point where the screen had one vertical pixel offset; then i could just reset the RAM to fix it. but today it just wouldnt do anything. I hit clear tons of times (my usual way of fixing it :) and those darned lines wouldnt go away. I got so frustrated that I threw it onto the ground to try to fix it and believe it or not, when i picked it up and hit clear once, the ol' 1-pixel offset was there beaming back at me. Now that was God!

My calculator is forever falling out of my pockets in metal shop and landing on the concrete floor. So far no problems.

man, that's incredible. Like those old Game Boy Color survival stories, only geekier :)

Yeah but next thing you know I'll drop it in molten alluminium or someting.

ROFLMAOUIFFABY!!!!

(Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass Offf Until It Farts Fire And Burns You)

Well, TI calculators can go through a lot. It's really surprising. Never heard of the GBA survival stories, though.

And on risk of being really off-topic here: I do have to warn you... methane is really flammable. "Farting fire" is dangerous.

But it can't realy burn the insides of your intestines because there isn't enough oxygen to allow for the methane up there to combust.

That's an interesting Phenomenon. :^)

Just don't sit down next to a vat of it :). Actually, it would probably just be easier to put it in your locker... or do you use it for metal shop?

No I don't use it in metal shop but I have math right before and don't have time to go to my locker.

What do you mean "tipped over"? Like, people push you over? I thought that was why they had advanced/honors classes, so the geeks would be classmates who had a remote interest in their grades, and would rather see their mental superior helping them out on questions than see him hurt and/or abused. Or maybe the advanced classes are just so all the geeks can form their GeekMafia and gang up on everybody else, one clique at a time, like Stalin!

Then again, we (that is, most of us) live in reality, so neither of the above is generally possible. In the meantime, we make fun of those who dont' have TIs and therefore, will never call TI-Support.

Tipped over as in my desk is tipped over. And I go to a private school so we are all in one history class. Everybody can do history :p

Not to mention it falling out of my slacks when I sit down. Stupid slacks.

exactly. I never used it either... even when the tip of my link cord got stuck in my TI

That happened to my brother's calc as well...The way we fixed that problem is we just always used the same link cable (the one with the broken tip) to transfer programs until we finally just opened the darn thing up...I was sick of transferring things to my calc then from mine to his every time he wanted to try a game out...