Survey posted 2004-02-13 19:42 by Morgan.

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TI-82: Out of warranty, someone scratched 'ETA' into the screen and disassembled it (2nd hand). Still works, although the image on the screen is very faint, and there are some missing keys, which I press with a rubber implement shaped like the inside of the switch.

TI-83+: Dropped multiple times, run over by car. Still works.

Voyage 200: Assembled incorrectly; a screw was left inside and scratched the power buses until the calculator was nonfunctional. Replaced.

Additionally, there may be problems with my SilverLink, but they may be just software. I have examined my link port and removed a plastic shard, but it still doesn't work.

I have a SilverLink and software v3.x.x and it works fine under Windows XP, USB 1.1

TI Connect? The latest version is 1.3.0.1.

i naver used the warranty, as such, but I did have to send it in ti get fixed after the warranty had expired. So I voted "Yes". You needed to have a "broke after warranty ended" option.

My problem was Defragmenting on an 83+ under OS 1.15.

What was it doing? Not freeing up the memory?

I have a TI 83 Plus SE and it would turn on, clear RAM, and turn off. I got a good deal because all the shipping was free and I got all the new APPS on the new ones that had come out FREE with the replacment.

As if that wasn't enough they shipped me a TI-10 (a 4 function claculator). At least they shipped the correct one fairly quickly.

Also my slide cover was broken so I got it replaced for free too. I think calculators should normally last MORE than 1 year.

All this happened at the start of this school year (Sept 2003) and a few days before my calculator broke my laptop hinges broke (that under warranty too). I've just had a bad year for technology.

Did I mention that at my school the computers crash almost every time I try to log in? Stupid technology. Anyway, TI was good with getting it fixed and Dell got my computer running in under a week. It wasn't the first time that I have had a problem and it wasn't the last - a week later I had to ship it if for a few weeks because it was overheating (I understand 130+ degrees is a bit hot for a laptop computer.) I also got a new hard drive because my hard drive burned out and I lost everything back to the middle of september when Hurricane Isabel came through. Anyway I think the only origenal parts left to brake are the keyboard, screen, and the mouse/touchpad/touchstick.

I hope next year is better. I hope this calculator lasts more than a year. And I hope my computer dosn't brake any more.

Also for anyone interested in any of the games that I talked about in the Game Ideas list (TicTacToe Link and QuickKey Link) they are also delayed because of all this. I hope to have the games out by mid summer at the latest (no promises).

Anyway, that's my life of calculator and technology problems.
>Matt M

I have yet to have even semi-major software problems with either my nearly two year old 89 or my voyage 200 I got last november. Both have locked many times, always easily fixable. I have many asm and tsr programs, which will crash or perhaps conflict. A tip, at least for those for whom it works, write a basic program to copy backups of unarchived files, and install tsr programs, and keep it archived, and to complete your ease, if you crash your calc a lot, use one of your kbdprgms. Then, when it crashes you have an easy way to re-install your programs. This works on both of my calcs. And the warrenty has gone unused.

Tor

I have a program that does that but my SilverLink doesn't work.