Any one know what up at ti-fr? It asked for a password. Are they having problems or is it no longer public?

i did that... but i hit cancel and it let me in... so just try hitting cancel

They paused service while redesigning ther website. It's available now, go check it out.

What is it with link software, anyway? Because it's USB, TI could have easily wrote a little firmware and made the calc emulate a storage device. Then you could use copy files to and from the calc in the same way you would copy files onto a floppy disk. No software...

hhhmmm..... very good point

Even a floppy disk has more storage than any calc and much faster too!

Actually, the SE has 1.5 MB of flash plus the 128K RAM chip (of which 32K is accessible currently). That's more than 1.44 MB for a standard 3.5" HD disk, however there are extended formats where you can format a HD disk for 1.68 or 1.72 MB.

Thanks for the correction, though writing to floppy disks is still faster than to calc via a graph link.

That's true but that wasn't what he meant. All you need is a hot pluggable external harddrive emulating device that communicates with the calc in the right protocol. Sending data to the calc is then simply done by copy/pasting or drag-n-dropping a file on the extra drive you get. Receiving is then done the other way around. Speed is not important.

BTW: Very good idea of Jeff. I would buy it if it existed.

Lol,to reply to a post way up there somewhere, I have actually touched a Ti-73,yes they do exist,not just in pictures... Goto Staples and check thier calc section,its with the cell phones. I used the 73,its not *that* bad actually, I also tried out some of those nifty lookin HP's

so the 73 is real, and not just a legond? (jk) they dont have one at my office max, and being i am not looking for one, i havnt been to many other store's calc department. plus, office max is closer to me than staples, or office depot for that matter, so i go to office max. i didnt think the 73 was doing good, but just reading the mb's, people are saying they are. i think the 86 is more popular though.

yeep,its real,the 86 is old,ive had mine for atleast 4yrs now..i didnt think ppl are still buying it

I want one! (for free)

Hey! How about a FREE Mercedes and a million dollar credit?

I'll take that too!!!!!!! :-) :-)

Office Depot by my house went out of business, and there is no staples. so i have to go to office max (which is where i got my 89 btw. oh and my 83, but 83's suck so..)

83's r cool. I might get one. Maybe not.

How about an EL-9600c, or an FX 2.0?

Are those non-TI brand calcs?

Yeah our school just got like tons of them, but I think the whole [2nd] [TEXT] thing is a pain.

People have no ph34r because a 3v1l l33t is here. Ah..lol dont you wish you had my n4k1d 5k1lls?

Kudos to who ever gets that,because ill know they arnt dumbasses

Ok, I had this explained to me last week. Uh...

ph34r = fear
3v1l = evil
l33t = leet
n4k1d = nakid
5k1lls = skills

Ok... interesting, but I don't want your n4k1d 5k1lls.

A classic case of leetspeak: pseudocryptic symbolics combined with terrible spelling and lackluster grammar. Also, check your signal-to-noise ratio.

<<Also, check your signal-to-noise ratio.>>

Nicely said :)

1337 speak is cool i guess, except for when retards get out of control and it comes out like

&#JSLL @(*|!|~|||~|~?/>,m

and means nothing...

cs tag=[|V|@rveL]|2eD $kuLL

which is more then enough goofball characters. There was a program called LeetSpeak where you type in a phrase and it spits it back out in leet, or ultra-leet=insanely dumb (see example above)

Hehe,i see im not the only Quake gamer in here,kudos to the p30pl3 \/\/h0 sp34k 7h3 gr347 l4|\|gu4g3 0f l33t.

It's a strange langauge-type thing.

Hehe...

Ppl, dont even ask about above,I was really hyper when I wrote it,so thats why its messed up

2 much sugar? hehe

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You're right, that was off topic.

Um... ok?... I think... n/m.