I’m about 10 hours in and really enjoying it! Did you complete it?

That’s interesting that they refactored it. Maybe there have been some improvements made over the last seven years.

In the beginning, there was ownCloud. They were a good FLOSS offering that decided to start catering solely to corporate customers in the hopes of juicy support contracts. The community who had been contributing the majority of the code gave them a mighty “Fork you” and created NextCloud.

That was about ten years ago. I haven’t looked into ownCloud for the last seven or so, but it had stagnated pretty badly by that point. Maybe they’ve gotten some fresh blood since then, but you’ll likely find it to be quite lacking in features and plugins comparatively.

That is definitely a well used little device! Coincidentally, the last calculator that I bought a couple of months ago is the EL-501X2, the most recent iteration of the model. Not a bad little calculator as long as you stay away from the edge cases! The edge cases are where the fun stuff is for me, cause I really like finding out where these machines tip over.

It’s in beautiful condition, too! Great find!

I got into notebooks by way of a fountain pen addiction. I’m currently using a Rhodia Guidebook that I use as a long-form Bujo, an Artist’s Loft dot grid as a commonplace book, and a Midori 5 Year Diary as a record of the descent of America into chaos as despotism.

Optimus Prime, and he is phenomenal!

It is supposed to be a capital A on top of a couple of corner braces. If you press SHIFT it turns into an S. On the fx-9750GIII you can use both upper and lowercase and the cursor has a lowercase a when in lowercase alpha mode. That said, it is pretty much a dong.

Thank you, @paradoxmo@penfount.social! I was way more worried that I was doing something wrong than anything else. Both the Lamy 2k and Sailor inks are highly regarded, so I’m the weakest link here. I had no idea that the Manyo inks would change like that, but now that I know I’ll see it as something to appreciate instead of panic over. Thanks, again!

That was a fascinating find! Thank you for sharing it! I would have figured that the calculator would have been the focal point of the in-class demonstration, but they really showed it as being a supplement to the lecture. Great little time capsule!

Nerds to the rescue!

I love that print!

That is an awesome bit of kit! Amazing that it has non-volatile memory for the five accounts even though it’s that old.

You should post this in the calculator community!

You have a knack for finding the perfect level of snark in your writing. Beautiful!

That is awesome! How different is the user experience between the two firmwares? Is it a really big jump in QoL, or is it just kind of nice?

That is phenomenal! My first graphing calculator was the only thing on my Christmas list when I was 14, I still have it, and it is still precious to me. I hope that he enjoys it!

Ding ding ding!

I hope that I remember to take out the batteries before then. That would suck to get the whole place set up and then have a whole corner coated in battery acid due to my own negligence.

It’s one of the reasons that I love collecting them. They all have their unique flavors and quirks!