hidden commands on TI calcs

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From: Greg Goss
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 16:53

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On my TI SR-50, pressing the 4 gray keys, then releasing one of them made the
calculator "go away" for 35 seconds.  It came back with a predictable result,
but once I figured a regression on it I could press the buttons to come up with
the result faster than it could.

On a friend's TI-50, he found a 8-key sequence that did the same thing. My
sequence didn't work on his, and his didn't work on mine.  How on earth does
someone find which 8 keys to press at once?

.../greg

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Subject: hidden commands on TI calcs
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