Reasons for scarcity of working TI-58C machines

[Garth Wilson]

(06-18-2023 08:58 AM)blackjetrock Wrote:  A side effect of this work is that you can look at the internal representation of the programs and sometimes do things that weren't intended, like extra characters in numbers or synthetic programming.

I did minor synthetic programming on my 58c & 59 (accessing HIR registers comes to mind, but that was almost 40 years ago so I don't remember any details, and I'd have to review), but I have no idea what would happen if you could enter non-BCD numbers into the memory.