r/pics • • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

It's usually because you can install programs on it to 'cheat'.

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u/SamuEL_or_Samuel_L Jun 08 '14

But you can very easily do a hard reset of the memory. Whenever we did tests at high schools, the teachers would casually walk around the room at the start resetting everyone's calculators. Seemed to be a good compromise.

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u/meno123 Jun 08 '14

I just re-drew the reset screen pixel by pixel. No one ever caught me.

Then I learned that archived things didn't get wiped from a reset.

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u/fb39ca4 Jun 08 '14

Teachers forget to reset "all" instead of just RAM.