Survey posted 1999-10-06 23:07 by Andy.

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Have I ever been caught? Of course. But I have never hada teacher clear my calc. My Precal teacher only tells us to put them up and 10 seconds later (literally) they are back out. They don't care as long as I have an A in the class. Besides, my precal teacher knows that I already know more precal than she does, so she respects me.

I posted in an earlier post how my Spanish teacher forbid me from playing calculator games in class. I fixed that problem! Today the teacher gave us 20 min. free time at the end of class to do whatever we wanted. I asked her if I could use my graphing calculator (after last week she forbid me). She asked me what I was going to do with it (she caught me playing Poker before). I told her I was writing a program to conjugate verbs. She said okay, but she wanted to see it when I was finished. Of course, I already had made it, so I waited 5 min. and showed her. She was absolutely amazed, especially when it conjugated irregular verbs as well as regular. Then I played SpaceWar the rest of the period. Try that with your Spanish teacher!

I'm just wondering, since the plus calculators (83+ &c) have a flash upgrade feature, is it possible to change the Reset RAM menus (the authentic ones) so that it only resets if you press a certain key in the menu instead of choosing yes or no? Sort of like how it shows version info when you press [Alpha]-S in the [Mode] menu. Of course, I know nothing about ASM / binary (assuming that the TIOS is compiled ASM)

All of my teachers at my school just pull out the batterys at my school and give it back to us. Since both me and my friend have ti82s we thought of a way to beat this and we "changed" my friends calc so it had extra batterys inside and the teachers could pull out all the batterys except the backup and the extra ones and the calculator wouldn't get its memory erased. The only problem was it was VERY hard and annoying to do. Since my friend is a good programmer he changed a normal shell around so whenever you pressed log it would clear the home screen and have the "mem cleared" screen and turn off. So, the teachers would take the batterys out and then see the "mem cleared" screen! Isn't it evil!

-KnightHero

One kind invigilator in my school lets me play calculator games in study periods! :-) I play Mario and Tetris the most. No-one else is allowed. If others do nick my TI-86 then it gets confiscated.

Does anyone know if there is a program for the TI-83+ (or compatible TI-83) that will keep the memory from being erased? Like when you goto reset the memory, it says it did but really doesn't?
Or at least, anything similar for the 83+?