SAVE POINT!!! (Recipe Received!)
In case others have decided (as I did) not to go through the agony of the ridiculously confusing Base Building quests for the umpteenth time, and then find out that the save BEACON (that you bought with salvaged tech in the Nexus and is also a reward from the Base Scientist) doesn’t work in your Freighter.
Well, if you want to SAVE while in your Freighter without running down to your ship and jumping in and out every time you make a change, you will HAVE to do the base building quests.
- The SAVE POINT recipe is NOT found/purchased in the Nexus/Anomaly.
- It is NOT given by the Technicians you hire.
- It is NOT given by the Base Construction Terminal.
- It is NOT received as a reward from breaking into buildings and stealing their tech.
You can probably tell I’m a little(?) bit grouchy about this. 
The ONLY way to get a SAVE POINT device that you can use in your freighter?
From the Base Computer itself.
But ONLY, apparently, IF you have done all the quests from the scientist, armourer, and horticulturist/chef.
Caveat: I can’t be sure about the point at which the Base Computer made the SAVE POINT tech recipe available because with so many (too many!) different possible ways for it to show up, I probably didn’t check the actual Base Computer often enough to pinpoint it. In fact, since the Base Computer spends hours defragging itself, it is easy to forget that it has anything to offer at all, and why would it when you have a Base Construction Terminal (and Nexus, and Manufacturing Buildings) giving you trees of (many of the same) recipes?! /rant 
Anyway, problem solved. :huge sigh of relief!:
Hope this helps others who have been tearing their hair and/or gnashing their teeth over not being able to use a save device in their freighter. Or even for those who weren’t overly dramatizing, and simply wanted a better way to do so. 
Kudos to @sheralmyst and @DevilinPixy and others in this most helpful thread, for pointing me toward the base-building quests in order to figure this out. 