I'm from Germany and was infected by the calc-virus in 7th grade when we needed a TI-82 STATS for school. I was very keen on TI-Basic, even remembered almost all entry-numbers of the program- and draw menus.. I wrote lots of programs, for cheating as well as for fun. Very simple ones like chat-programs (or TicTacToe against calc http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83/basic/games/strategy/tictactoe.zip) but also things like something cad'ish where you could build 3d objects from lines and then rotate, zoom and move them (sadly lost the code)).

After school I did an apprenticeship as an electrician for systems and devices (basicly most advanced electrician apprenticeship), but no graphical/programable calcs were allowed so I had to stick with some low level casio-garbage  Thus (plus the fact that I lost my Link-Cable somehow) the TI-82 didn't gain much interest anymore and I forgot just about everything over the years...

Then, a few months ago, I saw a video of a nspire running Linux. And a few days later someone sold his nearly unused TI nspire CX CAS for 100 euros in a forum I check regularly. So now I have a calculator running Linux which is insanely cool 

Only thing that bothers me is that it seems like I'm to dumb to compile a working Linux-kernel for nspire (http://ourl.ca/17131;msg=322933) and thats the reason for my todays registration 


Greetings
schuhumi

Welcome to Omnimaga! We have a good amount of Nspire devs if you're into that. Have some peanuts.