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Texas Instruments TI-5038
| Date of introduction: | 1988 | Display technology: | LCD |
| New price: | Display size: | 8 + 6 lines * 8 | |
| Size: | 7.5" x 7.7" x 3.2" | ||
| Weight: | 15 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | 3*AA | Date of manufacture: | mth 09 year 1989 |
| AC-Adapter: | AC9175 | Origin of manufacture: | Taiwan |
| Precision: | 8 | Integrated circuits: | Toshiba T7724, UM6116 |
| Memories: | 1 + 99 lines | ||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
| Download manual: | 
(EU: 7.9 MByte) |
The
TI-5038 continued a revolutionary concept introduced already in the year 1987: The
TI-2800 Paperless Printer! The
calculator works like the known printing desktops e.g. the TI-5130.
All calculations are done on the main display. Instead the usual printout on a
paper the results are scrolled through a secondary display with 6 lines. A
maximum of 99 lines could be stored and scrolled up and down with the arrow keys.
The TI-5038 II looks similar but changed the specification: The display size was reduced to 4 lines of 10 digits and the storage capacity decreased to 45 lines.
Later similar calculators with smaller housings like the TI-5028 or more conventional design like the TI-5128 appeared.
Production of the TI-5038 was shifted to Malaysia about 1992.
The design of the TI-5038 matches with the TI-5021 introduced in the same year.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.