TI-H: Screen and H2O problems
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TI-H: Screen and H2O problems
Shadowing his problem, does anyone know how to help a very old 85 that
was dropped and now horizontal rows are missing. There are many rows
missing at the bottom, but few at the top. And occasionally, there would
be an intense pixelless line on the screen (horiz.) that faded out slowly
when I turned the calc off.
Also, does anyone know how to fix a calc that was in the washer. I have
an inherited '80 or '81 which went through the washer. It didn't work at
first, but then did, so I took out the batteries and opened it up. It
was damp & lightly corroded inside (or was it Tide?) so I cleaned it up,
got new Good batteries and tried it, now it wont work. I tried turning
up the contrast, like on a '82 hit second, release it then hold down the
up arrow. If this is wrong tell me. BTW: this is a non-linking, but
cute calc. The board is scribed for a link port, apparently scrapped
before TI sent the 80 ro 81 line to production.
A few friends of mine own '83's. Two of the four dropped their calcs.
The 83 doesn't make good battery connections. Goodbye memory. At least
once, this 82 owner was superior to his '83 friends.
Larry Currie
Larry1492@juno.com
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:29:23 GMT Allen Saunders <saundeam@JMU.EDU>
writes:
> I dropped my relatively new TI-86 the other day and now the first
>column of
>characters (not pixels, *characters*) does not display.
> So am I completely screwed or what? The corner is scraped, they'd
>never
>replace it under warranty. Do you think it could be fixed? I don't
>want to be
>out $120, and I can't afford to buy another TI.
>
> I'm about at the point where I'm going to take it apart and poke it
>to see
>what happens (exploratory surgery). Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
> Allen Saunders
> saundeam@jmu.edu