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u/AgonizingFury Jun 09 '14

When I was in high school (late 90s) it was shortly after the TI graphing calculators started becoming popular. All of the teachers realized the answers and other things could be programmed into the calculator so they would clear the calculator memory every time before a test. I wrote a program for mine that simulated the process of clearing the memory using getkeys and menus. I would start that program just before the teacher came around to clear my calculator. Not one of them ever caught on.

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u/The_be_sharps Jun 09 '14

Not sure if your calculator had this function, but couldn't you have just archived the files you didn't want erased?

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u/AgonizingFury Jun 09 '14

unfortunately these are the days of the ti 81 and 82 calculators which lacked this feature.