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A community centered around handheld calculators. Show off your collections, ask questions, or trade benchmarks and torture tests.

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Psion 5mx (lemmy.sdf.org)

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Not really a calculator, but I saw that someone posted a series 3 :)

I wish this form factor was still a thing.

Yeah, I know Gemini exists but the software is already rotting...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i know this is a trope at this point, but i really miss the pre-Android/iPhone of handheld devices. Palm & Handspring did some cool shit, and they were fun to use and not yet obnoxious... Symbian and Maemo devices that walked a fine line. we need a DIY reboot of PDAs and handhelds that aren't smartphones that doesn't mistakenly try to focus on being a smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not the biggest fan of smartphones ever but what could you practically do with a device like that which you can't do with a modern smartphone?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Look super suave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's like the difference between using a beautiful damascus paring knife to cut an apple, and using a Swiss Army knife to do the same thing. The Swiss Army knife will do the job, but the paring knife will feel better cutting it up. There realistically isn't anything that the electronic organizers can do that a smartphone can't, but the organizer was designed from the ground up to do exactly what it does, and nothing else. There is a joy to using something that was crafted for a specific purpose. Just like I have a bunch of calculators on my phone, I still never leave the apartment without a real calculator. And I've never reached for my phone when I've needed a calculator except for in an emergency when I was too far away from my desk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you do lots of maths for your day job?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not too terribly much. I'm a network devops engineer, so a lot of my day is just parsing JSON. Stuff pops up from time to time, though, and I'm grateful to have my collection. I'm also going back to school at the age of 48 for a BS in Physics, so I'll be putting them through their paces over the next few years, too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Go you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you! I am so excited, but terribly nervous, too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

whistles

She’s a beaut!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Absolutely allowed, and encouraged! I love that you took a picture of it next to a Safari, too! I was just asking you about the Traveler's Company Brass pen earlier today, and I am so happy that I'm not the only person in both communities.