OS 2.1 NleasheD & 50000 forum posts

[DJ Omnimaga]

I wonder if stores sells them alone? It might be a small issue for people who are not allowed to buy stuff online (overprotective parents)

[apcalc]

I don't think they are sold in stores, but people could always use the excuse that it is an upgrade to the math (game )features of their calculator.  I don't think many parents would be against a relatively cheap upgrade to a big purchase like a graphing calculator.

[fb39ca4]

Though parents, if they do research, might wonder why their child wants the keypad for the old version of their calculator, when the new version has better features (supposedly ).

[DJ Omnimaga]

MY worry is more parents who are so stubborn and close-minded about technology to the point of paranoia. Until I moved out of my parents home at 20, I was not allowed to buy anything online, because my mom thought my credit card number would get stolen by Ebay or any other site I put it on and that we would get robbed from all our money

[qazz42]

lol, my parents are the opposite, my mom loves Ebay ans amazon

[DJ Omnimaga]

My mom just thought all online buying sites were insecure, no matter what expert tried to convince her. She heard bad stuff in TV news and she got scared of those sites. This changed after I bought several things online on Amazon and Ebay myself and got no issue (the only small problem being an item I did not receive and I got full refund)

[Netham45]

I've only had one issue on eBay, and all that took was a threatening letter to the seller(took him almost a month to ship) to fix. `-`

[qazz42]

Did you swear to vice grip him with your claws? (po-keh-mon reference)


Also, DJ, yeah, T.V. has been known to do that, you wont believe how many "internet scams" they talk about on the news, it is rather annoying. We were scammed once actually, I needed a music tutor, we found some place on the internet, parents gave them credit card number, I never saw that music teacher at all.... and we never got our 300$ back


Ebay on the other hand, my mom gets awsome luck on it, I dont though

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah often I see good deals, then I notice there's no international shipping

I wish I could get my hand on a TI-76.fr

[critor]

I wish I could get my hand on a TI-76.fr

Why?
The TI-76.fr is just the latest TI-73/83+ hardware, with a 256K TI-83 OS in the 512K Flash-chip.

The only interesting thing to do with a TI-76.fr would be to flash a 83+ OS.
But we will need to write a 83+ boot code first using assembly, at the end of the 512K flash chip.
Then, we could flash a 83+ OS using USB...

[DJ Omnimaga]

Just for collection purpose. Heck, I even got a FX-7000G from 1985 I don't see why it's such a big problem to you if I try to get a 76... Canada is a free country, after all, so I am within my rights and you cannot stop me...

I am also curious how the OS on it is like, what functions from the 83/82 Stats are missing and stuff.

[critor]

Just for collection purpose. Heck, I even got a FX-7000G from 1985 I don't see why it's such a big problem to you if I try to get a 76... Canada is a free country, after all, so I am within my rights and you cannot stop me...

Why would I want to stop you ? :p
Have you gotten my email about the 76.fr by the way ?

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ok because I just said I wished I could get one, then you questionned why and it sounded like something I was not allowed to do or something.

And no I did not receive your e-mail. You probably sent it to the wrong address. My address is and has been  o m n i m a g a @ g m a i l . c o m  for the past 5.5 years.

[critor]

Ok because I just said I wished I could get one, then you questionned why and it sounded like my choice was an heinous crime or something.

Just think about it for a minute: am I often telling you that your choices are heinous crimes ?

I was just pointing what the TI-76.fr was, in case you didn't know (because that model is quite rare).

[DJ Omnimaga]

I meant that in some sort of figurative sense. I just don't feel I need to explain myself about why I want to buy something in particular. I have to do it enough in real life. If it was just because you were curious if I knew what the 76 was, then I am sorry. (Actually I do know a bit about the calc, as I read about the calc several months ago, but I do not know the very exact differences between the 82 STATS and the 76.fr.)

As for its rarity, it doesn't help that most France Ebay sellers charges 30 euros on Ebay to ship their calculators internationally and that 90% of Ebay'ers won't ship outside their country. This limits my choice even more