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Texas Instruments TI-7200
| Date of introduction: | 1989 | Display technology: | LCD |
| New price: | Display size: | 8 | |
| Size: | 4.5" x 2.6" x 0.45" | ||
| Weight: | 1.4 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | n.a. | Date of manufacture: | wk 11 year 1990 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | Lubbock, USA | |
| Precision: | 8 | Integrated circuits: | |
| Memories: | 1 | ||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
We
wrote the year 1989 when Texas Instruments started the US-built campaign.
Together with the TI-7200 other models like the TI-7000,
TI-7100, TI-7300 and
TI-7400 were introduced for
Wal*Mart
and other discounters. And all carried the "Made in USA" logo. If
you read the small printed on the back of the calculator you'll notice the
sentence "With foreign and domestic components". If you opened the
calculator before reading, you would pronounce the word "foreign"!
If you feel familiar with the TI-7200 - compare it with the
original design introduced in 1988 with a different nameplate: TI-306.
A much more colorful calculator was introduced with the Fun Calc.
The design was continued with the new TI-7200
and the TI-25SOLAR
introduced three years later.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, October 20, 2004. No reprints without written permission.