Pete's Log: and thus sadness turns to joy
Entry #601, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
alright, so the batteries in my TI-85 have been running on empty for some time now. So today I finally took on the task of replacing the batteries. The last time I replaced the batteries was in high school, and that time the little backup battery failed its duty: I lost all the programs I had stored. And I'd written some fun ones, including a neat game. So I was certain the same would happen this time. So I ran some of my old programs one last time, just to say goodbye. Klue and Klue2, which still crack me up. I wrote those late one night in the dining room of the Crested Butte Academy. BJ Rozman was there, along with some CBA teacher guy, maybe Torrey Carrol, not sure. Then there's dork, which Kevin Cooney wrote during a freshman year physics lecture. So after saying goodbye to the memories, I took out the old batteries and put in new ones. And to my huge surprise, when I turned it back on, the last page of output from a Klue2 run was still on the display. All my programs were still there! The memories survive. I'm amazed, though, at how long those batteries lasted. Probably about five years. And I use my TI-85 all the time, too. That's incredible. Here's to more happy times with my TI-85. God bless you texas instruments!