cant wait to have a calculator that uses actually real battery types

(ignore how thats like, cr2032 which is literally the most common button type, i dont have one so thats the calculator’s fault for not being AA)

@coolbean did you actually decide on and order a new one?

also i hate cr2032s

@kopopp yea ti89s are like 25 bucks on ebay and just… so fucking silly (i mean, its an advanced programmable graphing calculator, thats awesome)

also having an actual calculator to do tedious everyday maths on just seems more enjoyable than what im usually doing (just enter it into whatever search engine im currently using and pray it gets interpreted correctly)

@kopopp i will almost definitely be grabbing the rpn program from archive.org (i saw a blog post from the person that uploaded it there, so i know archive.org has it) so i can do it the fun way with stacks and shit

@coolbean huh... didn't actually think about using a search engine for that. usually when i need to look up a math thing it's for programming stuff so i just put the math problem into whatever im making and have it print the result

this is painfully slow and inefficient for reasons that should be obvious

if not doing that i just use the calculator app on the phone which is kinda shit but if it's not for programming stuff it's probably something simple anyway.

think there's an actual physical calculator i could use but it's buried in a box with a bunch of other unused electronics

@kopopp i used to do it with emacs sometimes but indeed, doing it with a programming language is rarely all that fun (particularly since you dont necessarily have an repl running at all times, and if you do its never 100% clear if the language’s maths capabilities are… good, thats a big issue with forth)

@kopopp oh, thanks to the power of abandonware, this is going to be a bigger pain in the ass than expected

you have to use a proprietary graphlink to usb cable so thats 20 bucks already and you have to use it with ti-connect which didnt even run on windows 10

@coolbean sounds like itll be an interesting time! i kinda like the fact that most of those cables that you can buy at least have clear plastic for the electronic part tho, always neat and at least one little positive thing about it

@kopopp one is for serial port, one is for parallel port and one is for usb, the usb one doesnt work with the original graphlink software however dread

@kopopp http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/ thank fucking god i knew this had to exist, phew, ill just compile this

@kopopp https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/tilp2 it is in the debian repos, we are so back

@kopopp wait no i still need the stupid proprietary serial to usb cable

@coolbean make ur own

@kopopp you jest but thats actually not unheard of, the problem with that is that i suck at that and doubt i could make something functional (also i would need a 2.5mm connector and i literally do not have one)

@coolbean damn. it does actually sound like a really fun little project though. might see about doing that for something a bit simpler and more standard just for fun

@kopopp the temptation to get a serial to usb adapter and making the 4$ serial cable

@coolbean that really doesn't look bad at all! and itd be fun