Re: TI-H: Simple lock for TI calculator battery cover!
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Re: TI-H: Simple lock for TI calculator battery cover!
In a message dated 8/20/98 6:14:22 PM EDT, fuck@psouth.net writes:
> I don't know why I never thought of this before, but here it is,
> just in case you guys didn't, either. On my 86, I was looking for a
> place to hide things (paper with passwords written on them,
> answers to tests, etc), when I noticed the space in the clip on the
> battery cover. I took a piece of paper and cut it to the width of the
> space and folded it to fit. It fit, alright, so tightly that I couldn't
open
>
> it! I had to use a flathead to get it out. This gave me the idea to
> make a skinnier one, so that it could be easily pried out, and to
> make it fit deeper and fashion it from black construction paper, so
> that it would be unnoticable. Any person turning on my calculator
> and seeing the ASE password prompt, MIGHT think to remove the
> batteries, some knowing that it would erase the memory....they
> would find the cover "stuck" and give up. Result? Memory intact!
>
> Materials:
>
> Black Construction Paper
> Glue (To glue the folded paper shut, so it doesn't fall apart)
> Scissors
> Something sharp (small flathead) to pull it out again
>
> If anybody likes this amazingly simple idea, let me know, I
> figured that when worst comes to worst, you'd at least get a kick
> out of it!
Out of sheer curiosity, why do you want your calc to be protected???
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