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Choice Votes   Percent
Yes, as soon as it's released 50 34.7%   
Yes, but after I hear what people think of it 37 25.7%   
Sometimes; I usually wait until I have a need for it 33 22.9%   
Sometimes, just for fun 10 6.9%   
No, there's only one operating system for me 9 6.2%   
I don't own a TI calculator with a FLASH ROM 5 3.5%   
You can upgrade your operating system? ...really? 0 0.0%   

Survey posted 2006-05-09 05:50 by Jon.

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Re: When a new operating system is released for your calculator, do you install it?
FOCUSEDWOLF Account Info
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When i first got my ti89 it didn't have the ability to save archived programs and i didn't think it was possibile with any calculator at the time... then one day... i updgraded and found i no longer lost my programs after a reset and smq didn't work... well i'll take programs always being their over playing smq anyday :P

Reply to this comment    10 May 2006, 23:19 GMT


Re: Re: When a new operating system is released for your calculator, do you install it?
Travis Evans Account Info

Hmm... I remember reading complaints in the mailing list archives about having archived data lost after a crash back in the early days of the 89--after all, what was the purpose of Flash ROM if it got erased after a reset? Was that AMS 1.xx that did that?

Reply to this comment    11 May 2006, 15:11 GMT

Re: Re: Re: When a new operating system is released for your calculator, do you install it?
Travis Evans Account Info

Oops, "...what was the purpose of Flash ROM if it got erased..." should read "...what was the purpose of Flash ROM if the Flash archive got erased..."

Reply to this comment    11 May 2006, 15:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: When a new operating system is released for your calculator, do you install it?
Drantin  Account Info

I believe there was a program you could immeidately load onto it that would retrieve the files, they were still there but the OS didn't have any way to find out where they were in the ROM...

Reply to this comment    12 May 2006, 18:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: When a new operating system is released for your calculator, do you install it?
burntfuse  Account Info
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You mean something that restored the VAT? I guess that *would* work with the flash as long as it doesn't do a full clear and directly set every mem location to 0, which I doubt it does.

Reply to this comment    14 May 2006, 21:22 GMT

Re: When a new operating system is released for your calculator, do you install it?
mohaas05  Account Info

I usually download a new OS after ticalc announces it. Plus I also wait until TI actually updates the OS page :-)

Reply to this comment    12 May 2006, 23:48 GMT

Missing option:
anykey  Account Info
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No, because I'm too damn lazy and scared to use my computer with win98 again...who knows what evil lurks inside that thing!

Reply to this comment    16 May 2006, 02:53 GMT
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