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Texas Instruments TI-5100
| Date of introduction: | January 1976 | Display technology: | Fluorescent |
| New price: | $69.95, DM
198.00 $40 (October 1981) |
Display size: | 10 |
| Size: | 7.8" x 7.6" x 2.6" 197 x 193 x 65 mm3 |
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| Weight: | 20.1 ounces, 571 grams | Serial No: | 130609 |
| Batteries: | Date of manufacture: | wk 32 year 1976 | |
| AC-Adapter: | AC9171, AC9900/G | Origin of manufacture: | USA (LTA) |
| Precision: | 10 | Integrated circuits: | TMC1073 |
| Memories: | 1 | Displays: | Itron FG119A1 |
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
| Download manual: | 
(US: 3.2M Bytes) |
Texas
Instruments introduced this TI-5100 desktop calculator together with the very
successful TI-5040 printing desktop calculator in
January 1976, followed within a few month by the TI-5200
sporting a 12-digit display.
The
TI-5100 had for its time a rather long life-cycle and was manufactured both in
the USA and The Netherlands. We discovered in the meantime four different
manufacturing facilities for the TI-5100:
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• TI-5100 Lubbock, TX (July 1976) • TI-5100 Midland, TX (January 1979) • TI-5100 Abilene, TX (December 1981) • TI-5100 Almelo, The Netherlands (April 1976) |
Comparing TI-5100 calculators manufactured within a
timeframe of about 5 years at different places reveals only minor differences
between them and you can find a complete teardown of a TI-5100
here.
Dismantling the featured TI-5100 with
Date code LTA 3276 and manufactured in August 1976
in Lubbock, TX reveals a very efficient design based on a single-sided printed
circuit board (PCB) connected to the keyboard module and powered by an external
AC adapter.
The
Main-PCB of the TI-5100 is centered around a TMC1073 single-chip calculator
circuit, a member of the
TMS1000
Microcomputer family introduced in October 1974 with the
SR-16 calculator. While the
TMS1000 design was mainly intended for
designs using power-hungry LED displays with external display drivers, uses the
TMS1070 redesigned output drivers for the 11 R-Outputs (Display Scan) and 8
O-Outputs (Segments) that can withstand voltages up to -35 Volts and hence allows
direct operation of low-voltage Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFDs).
Don't miss the Toshiba BC-1015
introduced in 1979 and using almost identical electronics in a much smaller
housing and powered by two batteries.
Texas Instruments revived the TI-5100 designation in 1983 with the TI-5100 II using a much sleeker housing.
| TI-5100 An attractive, functional calculator that means business. This versatile, quality calculator can increase calculating efficiency in the office or at home with silent, effortless operation. Adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides and features a memory to store and recall numbers. Display shows M when a number is in memory. Overflow is indicated by an arrow at the left of the display. Calculate percentages, taxes and discounts. An item count key for simplified inventory and calculation of averages. Decimal selector switch positions decimal at full floating or presets at two places. Large 10-digit green vacuum fluorescent display (with comma) for easy readability. © Texas Instruments, 1981 |
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.