[abakker]

I still remember before test mode, when the teacher would just come around and do 2nd, +, 7,1,2 and that would reset the calc to factory settings. It became mandatory to have the USB adaptor to reload apps.

The Ti83 is how I learned to program.

[tyingq]

Interesting...is that roughly uncapturable by an application, sort of like ctrl-alt-del in windows?

[e2e8]

No, you could simply write a program that you ran ahead of time that would simulate the correct screens in response to their inputs and make it look like the calculator was reset when in fact it was not.