|
7th Grade Student Overclocks TI-89 A Bit Too Much
Posted by Nick on 24 September 1999, 23:10 GMT
WALLA WALLA, WA - On Wednesday, a seventh grader attending Lincoln Middle School accidentally overclocked his TI-89 "a bit too much," sources say.  The student, named Bryant Kramss, replaced the C9 capacitor with one made of pure radium for reasons unknown. According to family members, Bryant "felt he had an innate need to make his TI-89 three kilohertz faster" by replacing it with the insanely unstable element. As noticeable in the picture, taken in supposedly total darkness, the 89 has obtained a pale greenish glow. Rumors that the modified 89 does 100! in under a picosecond are unconfirmed. Bryant was admitted to Holy Family Hospital in Walla Walla on Thursday morning after he happened to notice the growth of a small tumor and an extra arm. He was then given prompt chemotherapy and he is now in serious condition. He is expected to fully recover very soon, as the dosage of radiation was not severe enough to cause any permanent damage. The 89 is currently under the FBI's custody, which is having tests run on it. The source of the radium is still unknown.
|
|
|
|
|
The comments below are written by ticalc.org visitors. Their views are not necessarily those of ticalc.org, and ticalc.org takes no responsibility for their content.
|
|
|
ODD.....
|
Dan_the_Tuba_Man 
|
|
Fake news gets more responses then real news? Does anyone else see the irony in that?
|
|
|
25 September 1999, 23:43 GMT
|
|
|
Re: 7th Grade Student Overclocks TI-89 A Bit Too Much
|
DWedit
(Web Page)
|
|
Which paint prog was used to make the picture?
|
|
|
26 September 1999, 02:44 GMT
|
|
|
Re: 7th Grade Student Overclocks TI-89 A Bit Too Much
|
|
Jason Curtis
|
|
umm...you know what? im pretty sure i beat you all...by a lot....you wanna talk about power, ti-89? nope....LAPTOP!...heh...nothin like a little quake 2 action during physics...and for the calculator aspect...umm, mathematica will due....or maple
|
|
|
26 September 1999, 18:29 GMT
|
|
|
Re: 7th Grade Student Overclocks TI-89 A Bit Too Much
|
|
RivenDTG
|
|
yea, right. like that would ever happen. weve got a better chance of all being abducted by aliens, than that unlikely story. the pic was probably faked in photoshop.
|
|
|
27 September 1999, 19:36 GMT
|
|
|
Re: 7th Grade Student Overclocks TI-89 A Bit Too Much
|
Laurent BARBIER
(Web Page)
|
|
Oooohhhh :-o , poor little TI89 just born, just died...
The radium is a little in the TI89, I opened my TI92 and i found a little microphone near the TI link jack, there wear also an cam an a cellular phone to communicate all what i do to the TDP (TI Database of People), well there was a spy in my calc. But that all, I find also a pack of TNT (It why the TI92 is so big...)
I have seen a TI82 opened, in it there is a martian.
Now I have seen all this, a little peace of radium is nothing for me (and it is very funny, now i could be seen the night and my TI92 too :-) ).
|
|
|
27 September 1999, 21:06 GMT
|
|
|
Re: 7th Grade Student Overclocks TI-89 A Bit Too Much
|
LollypopMan
(Web Page)
|
|
Hmmm, The Feds are involved?
This guy must be 3l337 h4x0r as well as a misguided fool!
|
|
|
29 September 1999, 23:55 GMT
|
|
|
Woah!
|
|
programerman
|
|
I have a TI-89. Is there a way to stabily put radium in there for that three extra hertz? I doubt it, but hey! I'm reply (direct or indirect) 179, which meants nothing! See ya!
|
|
|
3 October 1999, 23:10 GMT
|
|
1 2 3 4 5
You can change the number of comments per page in Account Preferences.
|
