Re: A89: the VAT

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Subject: Re: A89: the VAT
From: ZeromusMog@aol.com
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:28:17 EST
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In a message dated 1/17/99 4:38:42 PM Pacific Standard Time,
TGaArdvark@aol.com writes:

> > I did not post this program, but its idea originally came from me.  Its
>  > purpose is to degrade your flash-rom to the point of replacability near 
> the
>  > end of your warranty, thereby getting you a brand new flash-rom chip and
6
>  > months of extra warranty.  repeat ever 5 months...
>  
>  It doesn't work though because the calculator doesn't erase unarchived
>  variables and the calculator does not write a variable to the archive
>  more than once per garbage collection, no matter how many times
>  you archive or unarchive it.

I have no idea why I'm participating in this conversation, BUT...

what if you just kept storing large randmatrix's to the archive, unarchive,
store another one, etc. This could wipe out the flashROM real quick. :) The
only thing I don't know about: will the calc do garbage collection mid-BASIC
program?