[WP 34S] I finally bricked it :-(

[John Galt]

It took some effort, but the sacrificial machine I had been using for testing is not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead.

During a routine flashing, MySamBa reported a failure to acknowledge midway through the transmission. After the erase procedure the calculator had always drawn about 8 mA from the power supply. It now draws only 1.8 mA no matter what. If there's a way to recover, I don't know what it is.

I tried:

- numerous erase cycles
- using the LM1117 regulator as well as a bench power supply and batteries
- shorting the battery contacts together

It's difficult to estimate the number of erase cycles since I did not start counting anything until after the first flash was successful, but I estimate it to be approximately 100, but certainly less 200 erase cycles.