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There are a rising number of calculator collectors on our lovely planet and most of them own some TI calculators. The following list of known TI-collectors is maintained monthly. If you find some missing links or suggest some changes or additions please email: joerg@datamath.org.
Alex
Knight
Alex prefers electronic desktop calculators but you'll find a lot of
pictures and articles of both Texas Instruments calculators and TI built ones.
Andreas
Tabak
Andreas Tabak maintains in Germany the wonderful TCOCD (The Collection of
Calculating Devices) museum covering not only electronic pocket calculators but also slide rules, home computers and even integrated circuits. If you
follow the "TI-Path" you'll discover a wonderful collection including the
rare TI-18 SLR or TI-38.
Bill
Wood
Don't get lost in Bill's Electronic Jungle ! If you survive you'll find a nice
collection of nearly 300 electronic calculators from the 70th.
Unfortunately the original website is down and a replaced by a far less complete
one...
Brian
Greqory
Brian lives in Berkshire, Great Britain and opened for us his Texas Instruments
Voyage 200 calculator.
Bruce
Rogers
Actually a collector of HP calculators he knows the importance of TI in
calculator history.
Dan
Veeneman
Dan just started to collect calculators but you'll find the wonderful Cessna Sky/Comp
based on a simple TI-35 calculator.
Daniel
Sancho
Daniel is teaching computer technology in Malaga, Spain. His wonderful
pictured museum shows a lot of desktop and pocket-sized calculators from the
early Canon Pocketronic to the latest Texas Instruments graphing calculators.
Dejan
Ristanovic
This wonderful webpage found the TI-59 to be the best programmable calculator
in the world and it shows
Didier
Luthi
Didier maintains the wonderful Swiss Personal Museum of 80's Computers but
you'll notice some 50 calculators on his site.
Emil
Dudek
Emil maintains a great site featuring Vintage Technology from the twentieth
century. His extensive calculator area covers more than 480 models from the
1970s including some rare UK brands.
Elmer
Torensma
Large collection of vintage calculators, organizers and pocket computers.
The site aims to describe and provide specifications and images for many
calculators and pocket computing devices.
Ernst
Mulder
From the very first day he held a calculator he had
been intrigued by them. His favorites are the vintage ones but he collects them
all.
Frank Boehm
Frank maintains a huge photo library of electronic calculators. You'll find
more than 1000 pictures including some technical data.
Gene
Wright
Gene collects both HP and TI calculators. Dive into his webpage and you'll
dig out a lot of useful information.
Gerhard
Wenzel
Gerhard collects everything related to calculating. Beside Napier bones,
Abacuses and Slide rules you'll find a huge archive of roughly 1500 electronic
pocket calculators.
Guy Ball
Guy wrote together with co-author Bruce Flamm the well known book "Collector's
Guide to Pocket Calculators" and maintains the organization
"International Calculator Collector".
Unfortunately the website is down but fellow collector Nigel Tout moved it to
his site.
James
Redin
Dive into the James world of X-Numbers and discover an album of electronic
calculators, new ideas of calculating, a lot of articles and a well visited
forum on vintage calculators.
Jean-Francois
Laroche
Jean-Francois operates "The pocket computer museum". You'll find a lot
of pocket machines of the 80's, all programmable in BASIC language.
Jose
Proenca
A webpage about the TI-59 'a mais famosa calculadora do mundo' (yes, it is a
Portuguesian page, from Azores), and the TI-59C emulator that gives
immortality to TI-59.
Laurent Bonnin
Laurent maintains a nice collection of programs for the TI Programmable 57
introduced in 1977.
Mark
Bollman
Mark is a visiting instructor of mathematics at Albion College and a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Central Michigan University.
He started collecting calculators few years ago. He owns some rare TI
calculators.
Mr.
Martin
Mr. Martin teaches seventh and eighth grade math and computers in grades K-8
at Stella Maris Academy. He maintains a wonderful collection with over 140
calculators.
Masaki
Takada
Masaki owns an extremely rare engineering sample of the clear SR-50. You'll
notice a lot of other collectibles on his wonderful site like the Language
Translator.
Malcolm Talley
Malcolm just started collecting calculators and in fascinated with the early
ones produced in the early seventies.
Unfortunately the website is down currently (July 2003).
Michel Zwawiak
Michel - most collectors known from his eBay nickname 2004michelz - maintains a
wonderful collection of Texas Instruments products.
Mike Sebastian
Mike is doing a very important job for us calculator collectors, he archives
technical data of the components used inside the machines.
Nance
L. Briscoe
Nance runs the History of Integrated Circuit Technology
of the
National Museum of American History. You'll find a lot of very useful
information and a growing number of pictures of early developments from TI.
Nigel
Tout
Nigel collects mainly British calculators like Anita and Sinclair but you'll
find here an unbelievable version of the TI-58 calculator made for the Harrier
aircraft.
Peter
Muckermann († April 21, 2021)
The wonderful collection of Peter covers today 2300 calculators from the 70th up
to 1982. You'll find a lot of TI's and TI-build's like Radio Shack, Montgomery
Ward and Privileg.
Philippe Leckler
French collector Philippe started with My Calculator Database a powerful website
featuring 1000's of calculators and their specifications.
Piero
Todorovich
Italian journalist Piero started his wonderful calculator collection early in
2002. You'll find not only some important TI's like the Datamath and TI-20, but
even related products manufactured by Canon and Toshiba.
Rick
Bensene
Find a huge collection of really old electronic and electro-mechanical
calculators. Searching for inside pictures of a Texas Instruments SR-60 ? No
problem, here
you'll find them.
Rick
Furr
Rick maintains the Calculator Reference to cover HP, TI and Curtas. A lot
of information inside the DATAMATH CALCULATOR MUSEUM is based on his articles.
Rohit
Menon
Rohit lives in Chennai, India and started some years ago an amazing
collection of the wonderful educational toys manufactured by Texas Instruments.
He recently added some rare TI calculators to his collection.
Rolf
Jonker
Rolf just started to share his wonderful collection with us. You'll find a
lot of interesting calculators from the early years.
Unfortunately the website is down currently (July 2003).
Russ
Khederian
Russ bought already in 1975 his first calculator, the TI-5050 Thermal
Printing Calculator after dreaming some years about a Bowmar 901B. His wonderful
pictured museum is influenced from these products, you'll notice dozens of rare
Klixon™ calculators including the TI-150, most palm sized printers and some
unusual Texas Instruments calculators.
Serge
Devidts
Serge collects the whole bandwidth of electronic calculators, you'll find a lot
of products from Texas Instruments with lovely pictures.
Shinichiro
Osaki
Shinichiro maintains the beautiful
Pocket Calculator Museum in Japan. You'll find a lot of information about
earlier calculators manufactured in Japan.
Sipke
de Wal
Searching for the schematic diagrams of your TI-58 or TI-59 ? Sipke put them
together with the block diagrams of the calculator to the web.
Unfortunately the website http://xgistor.ath.cx
is down, Sipke died in May 13, 2004. Our thoughts are with him and his family.
Stefan Klaes
Stefan collects not only the early TI calculators, but also the newest 4-bangers
with LC-display and even the Databank products.
He donated a lot of pictures to the DATAMATH CALCULATOR MUSEUM.
Viktor
T. Toth
Concentrating on programmable calculators. You'll find here a lot of pictures
and datasheets. Includes a complete list of all known programmables.
Volker
Reher
Volker's intention is not to collect as many calculators as possible but to
gather as much information as available about the BASIC and Professional
Calculators CC-40, TI-74 and TI-95. His site includes scans of user guides,
programming guides and detailed pictures.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, January 13, 2001. No reprints without written permission.