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Clidia Panahon

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:17:20 PM8/3/24

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"IMHO, the only advantage of the 149 is increased girth if needed, increased gold if wanted and increased prestige if perceived. I have three, but hardly ever use them. After all, they hold the same amount of ink as a 146."FredRydr, 12 March 2015

Many who come to Western pens were first in narrower than marked Japanese pens, and find Pelikan 'fatter' than normal. There is no 'normal', but many folks believe in Santa Clause also.Each company has it's very own standards of how wide a nib should be.They go their own way.

My first Pelikan was a M200 purchased from Richard Binder and the steel nib writes buttery smooth. I will go for the M215, weights much more than an M400 or M600 and comes with rhodium trim, less bling bling, good for college IMO.

The M200 is a excellent pen but I prefer the size and feel of my M600 over the M200. To me it's that bit more comfortable to write with and given you have the TWSBI it might be a better size for you too.

As far as the nib goes the M600 feels much better to me than the steel nib on the M200. There are a couple of places (The Writing Desk is one, plus another that I won't name as they got my last two orders wrong) that will let you upgrade the M200 nib to a 14k M400 nib at time of purchase for around 40. I don't know how the M400 nib feels, but I've read reviews on here that indicate that it's stiffer than the steel M200 nibs, despite being 14K.

There are differences between the nib widths for the M600 and M200 nibs. The M600 nibs run a bit wider than the M200. The medium on my M205 is close to the fine on my M600. The M200 fine is much finer.

I guess I'm lucky having a pre'97 M400 nib. It is better, has more 'spring' than my modern 600...well my gold plated steel nibbed 120 is better than the 600 also. I rate my 120-400 nibs as even and a couple of nib places higher than my 600.

Because I chase nibs with a tad of flex, the 120-400-600 can not be rated as high to me. Even though they are quite good normal flex nibs. The 120 is always in my rotation (it is a joy to write with), the 400 often(I like it also). The 600 less because of it being a BB.

So the 600 has a good buttery smooth nib. (slightly stiffer than the older regular flex Pelikan nibs...as expected, it like all modern nibs(but Aurora and perhaps Delta) for use of folks coming from ball point, roller ball and gel pens who don't know how to hold a fountain pen. Continuing to hold it before the big knuckle.

I don't think you'll find much of a difference between the M200 and M600 nibs. I have two M200-series pens with steel nibs and two M600-series pens with gold nibs (one 14K and one 18K). They all feel about the same to me, and the fine nibs all write about the same size. The biggest difference, as has been pointed out already, is the sizes of the pens. The two images below are at the same scale.

Thanks a lot for the comments guys. I have decided to get the m200 due to the price. I didn't mind spending more on the m600 but this is my first pelikan and if I like it I will buy the m600 aswell soon.

I have a M215 and I like it, it's a bit heavier than the M200/205. I also have a M605 and an M600, they look great (especially the green o' green). But my everyday pen is the M215, because it doesn't look that expensive to others in university.

Hello all,
I have a couple of Watchguard Firebox M200 firewall appliance lying around after upgrading to newer units.
Could we build an openwrt image for them? It would be fine recycling them as a good router.
AFAIK Openwrt is the only Linux network/firewall distribution supporting power architecture.
Here are the specs. Software image is written on SD card.

Once musl is fixed to not hardcode AltiVec instructions on PowerPC64, adding M200 and T35 support shouldn't be too hard. I will not be working on T35 as I do not have the hardware, but you could always give it a go yourself, using the M300 and future M200 commits as example?

If you want to have a go, you can start from my qoriq-m200 branch. This boots fine, but network doesn't work. See commit messages for some details of what works, and what has been tried. Also check the commit message (in my staging tree) of the musl change I proposed on the musl ML, it contains an important instruction.

So the musl patch still has not been merged? That was my main concern as I don't think I want to attempt this until tools are capable of supporting the SOC. I also have a T35-W with the same SOC as the M200, so was hoping to build on the M200 work. I may take a look during my holiday if I don't get distracted with something else!

As you can see on the musl ML thread, changes have been requested to the patch. Unfortunately it took me two weeks to come up with those changes, as I had never touched ASM before. From the responses to the patch I understood I still had no idea what I was doing, and as this change was needed for hardware I will most probably never use in production, I decided it's not worth my free time.

Try formating your m200, reloading it but not overloading it, and using fresh batteries (replace them when the display shows about 1/4 left). You may spend a little more for batteries, but you should save on the stress.

At least for me, there is a much simpler solution. I just left it plugged in for about 10 to 15 minutes and it mounted under XP. I don know if it matters, but I had the latest firmware loaded when it happened.