wow...
this here is proof that we should all carry our TI calcs with us at all times! XD

Judging by my preferred calculator carrying location of my left pants pocket, the only thing my calculator would be protecting from bullets would be my hip.

yeah... same here...

and side ways too

If I was programming on it, then most likely it would save me.

We'll all have to start carrying a full vest of calculators just to be safe. Does anybody have any ideas for a calculator helmet, shin guards, and jock strap?

I think we should all have a moment of silence for the brave caculator that lost it's life saving this woman.

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Now that the moment has passed, are you sure it's really gone? Those things are bricks, $10 says it still works.

Doesn't matter what your $10 says...the article says otherwise :)

I bet it's just the screen that's trashed, and if you connected it to a serial link that all its files would be intact.

That way she could recover her favorite quadratic formula program.

Yup...I would hate to lose my precious, 70-byte quadratic formula program XD

Well what if the bullet entered through the top and exited lower down on the backside? If you look how it entered into the purse, the calc would have had its top facing the gun. That surely would have destroyed the processor.

lolwut how did you do that?

he put one space

The system doesn't allow comments with just spaces, but it doesn't know about UTF8 nonbreaking space characters (please don't abuse it, though). :-)

Note: this article dates back in 2008, but it doesn't really matter much, since nobody have posted it on calc sites/channels before TI-BANK did this week.

I was shockedy when I saw the calc saved that poor girl life. I would hate to get attacked like this. I'm not sure how I would react if it suddently happened to me.

i would feel really said still...
since my calc would be broken... T.T

Wow. I don't know what I would've done either. Hopefully my TI is as quick witted as hers was.

nah... I would give up myself to save my TI. (j/k)