Hurrah!

Happy Anniversary.

Actually, I don't think Texas Instruments even deserves acknowledgement. Their graphing calculator development has stagnated over much of the ten years, and I think development and projects would have gone within the graphing calculator community with only a few models around.

Ticalc.org has stagnated itself the past years, too. There have been two new articles in the past six years, file uploads have not been as innovative or as well-designed as they may have been even a few years ago, and Michael and the rest of the staff sometimes even forget there's a post button. Perhaps ticalc.org needs to sponsor a project or contest to get this community revitalized, just like Google's Summer of Code is supposed to accomplish. In fact, this is the perfect time to start.

There's hope yet. Here's to ticalc.org's next ten.

Hey, the Summer of Code does sponsor a few calculator projects. :-) There's my KTIGCC, there's a project to write a diff equation grapher for the 83+/84+ series and there's a project to support Bluetooth on the 84+ through USB Bluetooth adapters. All thanks to Detached Solutions who are mentoring us. They are also mentoring a project to write a scientific calculator for Pocket PCs.

how about bluetooth on the ti89

Hmm. That WOULD be a nice thing to try and implement... But is it viable?

But what about the 68k calculators? There's so much on the 68k calculators that could be done but haven't...

Hey how about a mouse that plugs into the link port?

If someone donates the resources to us to hold such a thing, I'm sure we'd be interested in doing it. But you need to remember that ticalc.org has zero income, and is all based on volounteer work, so we can't really pull something like that on our own.

As for ticalc.org having stagnated - yes, I definitly agree in some way. Some would say it's because "the site is complete", but that's definitly not so. We've reached a point where we can definitly live "status quo" without too much work, but you are correct in that there could be more innovative stuff happening. So if you have any specific ideas, those are always welcome!

as I have pointed out many a time, the profile pages are outdated. Add all the calc models and cables. And despite initial enthusiasm from jon, he still hasn't heard from any of you other staff in regards to finally implementing the summer archive project.

This is indeed the perfect time to have a contest. Here here!

Thank you so very much for this website. If it wasn't here I would have never learned to program...

I'll take the chance here to say a huge thank you to all the members of our staff that have kept with us through the years - the oldtimers, those retired now, and of course also those currently keeping the site up day-to-day. Great job, all of you!

Congratulations!!!

Without ticalc.org, I wouldn't know where I could download and upload others and my calculator stuff.

I don't know what I would do with out TICalc. I don't even know how I found this site last August, but I am glad I did and now... here I am, a BASIC programer and learning ASM.
A truely Happy Birthday.

I dunno if this could be considered as semi off topic, but any idea why magnus isnt user #1?

because he said so?

Here are the first few:

1: Andy Selle
2: (error)
3: Nick Disabato
4: (error)
5: Magnus Hagander
6: (error)
7: (error)
8: Phil Genera
9: Nathan Haines
10: Isaac Salpeter

BTW, what's up with all these 'the account is not listed in the directory' errors?

They don't want people looking at their account info. Mine was like that for awhile.

for some reasons the Nathan name here made me freak out *cough*netham45*cough*

I am surprised Nick Disabato has lower ID than magnus O.o

That's actually because they started up the account system late in the evening US time - so Magnus was asleep, and I got the jump on him ;)

And I used to have -1 as well :-P