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Texas Instruments SR-20
| Date of introduction: | Sept.11, 1973 | Display technology: | Panaplex II |
| New price: | $179.95 | Display size: | 10+2 |
| Size: | 9.1" x 6.5" x 2.6" | ||
| Weight: | 1 pound 15 ounces | Serial No: | 200047163 |
| Batteries: | Date of manufacture: | wk 44 year 1973 | |
| AC-Adapter: | 120 V | Origin of manufacture: | USA |
| Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TMS0202, TMS0304 | |
| Memories: | |||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
The
SR-20 is one of the few scientific desktop calculators manufactured by Texas
Instruments. In a housing with the size of a TI-3500
but the extreme wedge shape of the SR-10
you find some useful scientific functions but no memory.
The displays used in the SR-20 are Panaplex II
devices. Produced by Burroughs they are long-life, cold-cathode, glow-discharge
display panels. Keep your fingers away, normal voltage is about 150V. With their
orange glow they give a perfect readability even in bright ambient situations.
A similar calculator performing conversions between octal,
decimal and hexadecimal number bases was the SR-22.
The TI-450
used the same two-chip calculator brain but lacked the scientific functions. The
first usage of the chip set was the TI-4000 and the Canon 121F.
It took about 10 years before the next scientific desktop calculator manufactured by TI appeared. Do you know it? View it here.
Some parts of the calculator housing and the display could be found in an industrial product, view the 5TI PLC programmer.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.