Survey posted 2004-04-17 08:20 by Morgan.

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Sadly the old server is NOT up for sale. I wonder if it will be someday?

You could open the museum of ticalc.org, with the old server and illustrations about the evolution of the site :)

Hey, good idea. :) There could also be a section for old TI technology, like the TI-81, TI-85, and other discontinued calculators. And links to memorable moments.

*cough* War and Peace *cough* :-D

There are a LOT of memorable moments here.

And guess what? ... It's my birthday! Ticalc is having a birthday party for me, right? ;-)

... Todays mine too =)

Really? That's cool :) Happy Birthday to you as well!

It's my birthday too! *in a months time or so* =P
Keeping on track: Eeh,don't need it!
I just got a new computer (check link above for specs), yay!
***comments on how to improve it with drivers and software are welcome. =D

Happy birthday.

-W-

Thanks :)

WAR AND PEACE!!! HOOOAH! =D

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Did it work? If not, that's ok, because I remember all the deformed cakes I got from YOU on MY birthday... ;)

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OK...the candle flames are off, but close enough...Happy Birthday!

Actually, the cake wasn't that off :) It looked pretty good. I usually use alt 0,1,6,0 for the blank parts where you can't use space, but it's still never the same without the <PRE> tag, which you can't use. Oh well... gotta love monospaced fonts. :)

My Microsoft Word default font is set to Lucida Console. Yeah.

Hey, that's what my web browser's default monospaced font is set to.

My default OpenOffice.org (what I use instead of MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) font is set on Book Antiqua right now [subject to change :) ].

I like Fixedsys, but Lucidia Console is nice too...

Hmm, I don't have that...

I use Courier New - is the most compatible (less squares)

Another OpenOffice user!

Y'know how to print so that it takes up all the page, not just 1/4?

Used to use open office.
Wasn't the greatest fan of the word processor.

Use Textmaker now. - well worth the money in my opinion. The best I've used on an x86

I actually have a Ti-85. It doesn't work too well and i don't use it now that I have an 89, but it still does exist and function close to normal. There's just two rows of pixels where nothing shows up...

my 83+ just recently went crazy during a math test... it was like the list edit menu but with 10 columns... also every other 8 pixels was whited out and the whole screen was covered in shifting lines. i fixed it though by hitting clear 100-200 times and resetting the ram.

over the past couple of months, i've found that the simplist way to fix an 83+ is just to hit the keypad with your fist really hard. then it will usually work for a little while

-jordan

thats pretty much what i did, and it worked! It think it was caused by sketchy or omnicalc.

I've found it's better to simply get a TI89... :-)

Oooo, oooo. Press: Y=, clear, graph, Y=, zero, 2nd[zero], cos, Up(5 times), enter, vars, right, enter, enter, comma, vars, up, enter, enter, then press enter a whole bunch. If nothing happens, press Y= one more time. Yay.

Pull out the battery.
Press [DEL] while putting it back in
Load new opperating system for another calc.

or

Pull battery
Press [ALPHA] while reinserting battery.
This make that calculator run through some kind of flash check thing, bit by bit. This only works when the calculator is realy shoot.

Is the second one like [mode]->[alpha]->S->[enter]? I think that one makes a good prank. Just tell some idiot that their calc will do something cool if they press that series realy fast and zoooom, their RAM is cleared.

Nah. Let me explain how i figured this out and maybe that will clarify things. I was loading on a new operateing system (v1.16 to be precise) and the batteries went dead. When I get new batteries the calculator comes on and says waiting for operating system or something like that. So I go to put it on again but it just stops because it is thinking that I already have operating system 1.16 (which I do sort of). So basicly I'm stuck with half of an operating system. I decide to mess around and descover that if when the calculator is off if I hold down [ALPHA] and turn it on a screen pops up that says Checking Flash and a number that starts counting up from 0.

Pull out your TI-89 and use it instead...

That's what I do, because at the start of the test, my teacher makes sure I don't have my TI89 out.

Yeah, except when the batteries blow up and leak and ruin your TI-89.

Solution? Get a V200...

I've never had any problems with my old calculators (TI-81, TI-82, TI-85, TI-86) even though the oldest one is 10 years old. Except the TI-82 does sometimes show a vertical line of pixels in the middle of the screen missing, but not very often. Then again, I don't touch those calculators much, so I don't know for sure.

Oddly, my newest calc (TI-89) has more cosmetic wear and tear than my older calculators. :) It works perfectly, though.

I think you might be on to something there!

Anthony

He is. There is a museum in Silicone Valley deticated to old computers.

I hate to sound picky, but you've got a nasty double entendre there... It's spelled "silicon" valley to avoid those tight spots again...

What ever, you knew what I meant so that is all that matters. The only reason that we are not speaking Old English right now is because languages evolve.

Darn, you could probably make a lot of money on Ebay.

Probably. A lot of people would bid on it.

Including me!!!! (JK ;-) )

I would, but only to drive the price up.

-W-

Yeah, you bid $20443 and get stuck with it.

w00t! I'd bid $314,159,265,358,979,323,846!

Geez... 314 quintillion is big enough... but THE FACTORIAL OF 3.14*10^20???? Nobody will EVER have that much money... unless Bill Gates knows something that we don't. ;-)

I'm not sure he knows much...

Not really. It's an old dual-processor ProLiant with two Pentium Pro 200's.

But their new server (3.06GHZ Xeon) would be dandy...