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Re:Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard by khedoros1 on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:21PM (#14215286)
> And so I lost all my programs when the ram was cleared for a standardized test.

On my TI-83+, I could transfer RAM programs into flash, to "archive" them. Wasn't that an option on the TI-84+?

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Re:Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard by Declanomous on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:08PM (#14221708)
This actually was a Ti-83+, I just got the model number wrong. I don't recall the specifics, but I believe the flash didn't store everything I needed through reformatting, or my programs were too large to fit entirely within the flash.

I think the ti-84 actually had a USB port (or a redesigned port of some sort), which eliminated this issue.

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Re:Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard by khedoros1 on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:55PM (#14224140)
The flash was a lot larger than the RAM, but I think you could only store programs there, maybe. Data tables, strings, and such might've needed to be stored in RAM.

I feel for your loss though, whatever the circumstances were. The first graphing calculator I had access to was a TI-81. No flash space, RAM only. And since it had been my mother's when she went back to college, by the time I was using it, the button battery was pretty "iffy".

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