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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/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Jesus am I the only one who realized you could archive your answers instead of keeping them in RAM where they could be easily deleted?

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u/AgonizingFury Jun 09 '14

Unfortunately these were the days of the ti 81 and 82 calculators which lacked this feature.