Re: LZ: get more ram?
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becker wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if you could make a little drive for the link port and
> > have three or four disks to send to the calc.
> >
> > David
> I thought of that too, but the only reasonable way of making a disk
> drive is to write a routine which would use an old c64 5.25 disk drive
> or something like that. everything else would be too expensive and
> require a lot of design tricks.
>
> Now this is very weird...I'm gonna warn you that you will NOT believe
> me, but I encourage you read this anyway...
> Tonight, I discovered that a connection had come loose on my
> turbo-switch circuitry in my TI-85.
>
> I proceeded to take out ALL OF THE BATTERIES, I repeat: I TOOK OUT ALL
> OF THE BATTERIES, THERE WAS NO POWER CONNECTED.
> I proceeded to take apart the 85, fix it and put it back together.
>
> I turned on the TI-85 and turned up the contrast, here is (about) what I
> saw:
>
> -----------------------
> ZShell Version 4.0
> Copyright (C) 1995
> Dan Eble
> Magnus Hagander
> Rob Taylor
>
> ------------------------
>
> I AM NOT LYING, SO HELP ME GOD, I AM NOT LYING.
>
> Now perhaps the laws of physics ceased to exist for a few brief moments
> on the table I was working. Or perhaps god himself climbed inside the
> ram chip and kept the memory, SO HELP ME GOD, I DON'T KNOW. has anyone
> ever heard of anything like this?? all of the memory was saved, no power
> source was connected, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??????
>
> I AM NOT LYING, SO HELP ME GOD, I AM NOT LYING.Same thing happened to me when I was turboing my calc. Actually it happened a couple of times. I heard
somewhere that the ram can remain sometimes for as long as 5 minutes or more. So I doubt if it was devine
intervention :)
Later
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