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Weregoose
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So, I switch on my TI-84+SE for a bit of number-crunching, find what I need, then promptly turn it off. Less than a minute later, I hit the [ON] button again, but it doesn't seem to respond. [ON], [CLEAR], [CLEAR], [2nd], [MODE], [2nd] [[font="courier new"]▲]... Hmm, this isn't good. Is it the batteries? The device hasn't complained in recent uses... Reluctantly, I open the back, roll the cells, and try again. Nothing.
I cringe at what I am about to do next: I pluck out the batteries, tap [ON] a few times, and throw them back in. Still no dice. Argh! Did the back-up get jostled somehow? I spend a minute searching for a screwdriver, but can't find one small enough. Desperate and irritated, I return to the machine and push the [ON] button, just hoping for a bloody miracle. And the thing turns on.
No "RAM cleared" message, and all the programs are still there. Lovely. Of course, the clock has been reset... but under what circumstances? Could something like the 2038 problem have something to do with this? I run startTmr and subtract the 60 seconds that I spent looking for the screwdriver. Now, 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day, 365.25 days to a year...
126230397/60[font="verdana"]²/24/365.25 = 3.9999999049…
Did my calculator just choke four years after its activation in the factory? ...In fact, no, it didn't. The truth is that startTmr has its value based on whatever day/month/year is currently set on your calculator (something that you can change at will), thus it doesn't have any bearing on this issue. But, it still doesn't answer what happened to my calculator today.
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Iambian
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I don't have a clue about what could've happened, but the clock does reset when you pull the main batteries. The backup battery for some odd reason doesn't keep the clock powered.
Do you have any strange ASM programs on your calc? A listing of your applications (and probably which ones you might have "installed" for those that do) might be helpful.
EDIT: The calcs do not seem to suffer from this 2038 problem as there's no 32-bit signed math that I can see the calculator doing. I've got the timer to go past year 2100 after some messing around with the timer ports, trying to figure out how high the thing could go.
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