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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: Deep Toaster on July 22, 2013, 07:45:45 pm

Title: Your calculator names
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 22, 2013, 07:45:45 pm: It seems a some of us have named our calculators, and those who have more than one might have a naming pattern for them.

I named my (plain black) TI-83 Plus during a phase when I was really into Greek mythology, so she (it?) ended up with the title of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy). (...) As I got more calculators they were also named after roughly human Greek mythological figures. Casios get male names, TIs get female.

TI-83 Plus: Helen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy)
TI-84 Pocket.fr: Calypso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso_(mythology))
TI-Nspire CX CAS: Persephone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone)
Casio PRIZM: Hector (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector)

How do you pick names for your calculators? Male/female? Common/rare names?
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: annoyingcalc on July 22, 2013, 10:44:12 pm: TI-83 Plus Graphless (At one point I forgot how to use the graph c.c)
Ti-Nspire CX Grapha
Ti-83 Plus SE Silvva
Ti-92 Obescow (Its huge, an obese cow)
Computer: Haitink
Ancient Computer: Baremboim
Slow Computer: Solti
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: XiiDraco on July 22, 2013, 11:03:41 pm: TI-84 Plus : Polonium
TI-NSpire : Schwarz-Pad
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: tr1p1ea on July 22, 2013, 11:52:54 pm: So should the CE be called Achilles?
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Streetwalrus on July 23, 2013, 01:10:58 am: I didn't name my calculators but my new computer is called Jean-Frédérique II (Jean-Frédérique was my iMac), my iPod Touch's (2nd gen O.O) name is Pierre-Alain-Paul-Jacques. I call my Nexus 4 Pierre-Alain-Paul-Jacques Junior. :P
As you can see I gave them male names composed of cheesy french names, just for fun (my cousin calls his desktop Dagobert XD).
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Hayleia on July 23, 2013, 01:57:19 am: TI-83+ : Carly
TI-84+SE : Trixie
TI-76.fr : Lulii
Nspire CX CAS : Athéna
Casio Prizm : Alstroemeria
TI-84+CSE : Roxanna (Roxie)

The pattern I used : all z80 have a name terminated by the sound "ee" in some way (more accurate when pronouced by French people), and all color calcs have a name finished by a "a". Now the funny thing is the CSE.
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Sorunome on July 23, 2013, 03:17:09 am: My calcs don't have names....but therefor i have derpy as startup pic :P
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on July 23, 2013, 03:52:04 pm: I don't give them really names. :/
I'm also afraid I'd forget. :P
Title: Re: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: TheNlightenedOne on July 23, 2013, 04:59:38 pm: TI-84+SE - Aurora
TI-89Ti - Luna
TI-Nspire Touchpad Non-CAS - Keto
TI-Nspire CX CAS - Eris
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: epic7 on July 23, 2013, 05:06:40 pm: Quote from: Sorunome on July 23, 2013, 03:17:09 am
My calcs don't have names....but therefor i have derpy as startup pic :P

My calcs don't have names either. Does that mean I am forced to also make Derpy my startup pic?
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 23, 2013, 09:53:49 pm: Lol Deep Thought there's a french community member who use the Persephone nickname actually. Make sure you avoid confusion if you ever talk a lot about your calc on forums. :P

As for my calcs they have no name as well, although in my early days of programming, during long periods of debugging, I often called my 83+ and 83+SE "Ma tabarnack de caliss d'ostie d'vache" or some similar stuff, ready to throw it through a wall or something. :P
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Hayleia on July 24, 2013, 01:57:44 am: Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 23, 2013, 09:53:49 pm
Lol Deep Thought there's a french community member who use the Persephone nickname actually. Make sure you avoid confusion if you ever talk a lot about your calc on forums. :P
If you are talking about TI-Planet, I just wen through the member list and found no one named Persephone. Maybe you were confusing with Persalteas.
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2013, 03:45:58 am: I think it's Planète-Casio or another site. I might have spelled it wrong, though, but it's not Persalteas.
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: TIfanx1999 on July 24, 2013, 08:52:05 am: Quote from: DJ Omnimaga
Ma tabarnack de caliss d'ostie d'vache
Care to translate? Google fails and tries to report this as Galician. x.x I get something about... a cow? ???
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Streetwalrus on July 24, 2013, 08:55:39 am: Yeah that's french. I don't really understand it but that's probably some funny swearing he came up with. :P
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2013, 08:57:25 pm: It's Quebec French slang actually. It can't be translated literally, but in English it would basically mean "F***ing piece of s***" :P
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: TIfanx1999 on July 30, 2013, 01:21:15 pm: I kinda figured it was something like that. :P It's funny that Google translate choked on it and was like "what the heck is this! ???".
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Eiyeron on July 30, 2013, 05:41:22 pm: "La noire" for the Prizm ("the black one"), "la bleue" for my AFX 2.0 ("the blue one" Graph 100), "la Game Boy" ofr the Nspire ("le jeu de garçons").
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: ben_g on July 30, 2013, 05:59:05 pm: I just call it "Mijn grafisch rekenmachien" (="my graphing calc"), or, when it's clear that I'm talking abouth the calc, "da ding" (="That thing")
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Streetwalrus on July 31, 2013, 01:44:24 am: Quote from: Eiyeron on July 30, 2013, 05:41:22 pm
"la Game Boy" ofr the Nspire ("le jeu de garçons").
Lol at that one. ;D
Title: Re: Your calculator names
Post by: Hayleia on July 31, 2013, 02:00:55 am: Quote from: Eiyeron on July 30, 2013, 05:41:22 pm
"la bleue" for my AFX 2.0 ("the blue one" Graph 100)
Butbutbut... The blue one is Yeong !

Also lol, I didn't call my CX CAS "GameBoy" but the GameBoy was the only reason why I bought it.