I wonder why my chili was so very crunchy......

Be careful of the sharp plastic shards - the transistors and ICs are small enough to munch, but the case fragments can really hurt your gums.

youre making me hungry... Im going to put my calculator away in a location safe from my appetite before i do something id regret...

Mmm...smart chili!
The food of the 21st century! :)

It's the fragments of shattered glass LCDs that's giving me problems... and I hope Nick finds his 86 soon!

What kind of American has gums? hehehe the european stereotype is that americans are so uncouth and like "rowdy cowboys" that we never brush our teeth (and is somewhat true) but the American stereotype is that the British all have wooden teeth. How many people actually floss thrice a day and save "soda and other junk foods" for special occasions?

(special occasions other than commercials or half-hour-long MGS cutscenes :)

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Uhh.... that code is um.... *just forgets about it*

How in the WORLD did calculator parts get in chili!?!?! The weird thing is, it's true-- CNN has it on its website (and I doubt CNN does fake news articles).

Hope you find your calc, NickD. Somehow, I doubt that's how you lost it, but either way, hope you find it. Most of us know what it's like to lose a calculator (or... some).

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I don't drink soda any more, specifically for that reason. Though, I do feel better, now that I drink water all day instead of soda.

Oh nooooo.... That was my 83 :(
I hope silicon isn't poisonous, I can't handle another lawsuit(stupid RIAA)!

OMG! You had a lawsuit with the RIAA? What happened? I hate the RIAA.

Not Really...

Oh I geth thath why I canth uthe my thongue (owthch). I donth know whath kind uff doodoo meat they used, but I hath to PUKE!

mixing 2 of the worlds greatest inventions (chili + calcs) doesnt exactly make a great invention. lol. nice "news" tho

Did somebody on the production line drop his calculator into the chili? How do you contaminate chili with a calculator? It seems rather hard to do. But, no, it wouldn't be a very good invention. The sauce would fry the calculator's circuits, unless they've invented liquid-state semiconductors or something...

You can never put calculators in ANYTHING and make it contaminated...the CHILI contaminated the CALCULATORS...calculators are like light...no matter how much darkness there is, a little light drives it all away... :)

You've been playing too much Kingdom Hearts...

heres my guess, somebody was playing a game on their Ti-83+ when it suddenley freezes and they get a ram clear, they get angry and accidently chucked the calculator in with the chili.

Yeah, I can see that happening. I've felt like (but never actually) throwing my calculator under those exact same circumstances. I like my 83+ Silver too much.

That's a fact of life for the TI-83+SE. They always crash.

Which is a great reason to have all your games in archive, and run them through mirageos (or crunchy, but I haven't tried that yet). ...Ram clear? no problem. Just gotta wait for mos to sort the files again (which sometimes takes 1-2 minutes, but is better than going back and reloading them from your computer).

u realize that u can turn off file sort, right?

With a little patience, you can get rid of that error! And I hope Nick finds his calculator soon.

Try crunchey it runs great the merage emulation is allmost pirfict but i get problems with zcart 3d, but ram clears never EVER sceem to make you lose a game if you run it archived

It's all about using OmniCalc and its MemRestore function, or whatever it's called. That works perfectly. OmniCalc is very useful...

I agree, Omnicalc is a great APP, ut it or something else jacked up my link port on my TI-83SE, so I had to send it in to get a reconditioned unit. Otherwise, I'd recommend it to anyone who wanted their calculator to perform to the fullest. Saving a RAM image every time you turn it off, that's freakin' cool.

Hey, bud, no one ever said it was a TI-83...it might have been some dude with a calculator taking inventory and he was on a catwalk over a vat o'chili, and he may have dropped it. You never know. My tongue has gotten better though...

Yes, I prefer to eat my chili plain. I can program for my calculator WHILE eating chili... hmm... I am suddenly hungry for chili now. Darnit!