05-25-2020, 07:44 AM
Edit: See also: https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-15048.html
It seems both Casio and TI are trying to stop students cheating in exams. The TI approach is going to upset a lot of long time hackers:
Texas Instruments makes it harder to run programs on its calculators
The Casio approach seems strange, as while the intention of the modification is clearly to cheat, invoking copyright infringement law is bizarre as the hack looks to be just forcing more hardware into the calculator body:
DMCA Takedown Issued Over Casio Code That Wasn’t
Maybe the Prime will now get some more attention.
It seems both Casio and TI are trying to stop students cheating in exams. The TI approach is going to upset a lot of long time hackers:
Texas Instruments makes it harder to run programs on its calculators
The Casio approach seems strange, as while the intention of the modification is clearly to cheat, invoking copyright infringement law is bizarre as the hack looks to be just forcing more hardware into the calculator body:
DMCA Takedown Issued Over Casio Code That Wasn’t
Maybe the Prime will now get some more attention.