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Texas Instruments Little Professor (1980)
Date of introduction: | 1980 | Display technology: | LED-stick |
New price: | Display size: | 8 | |
Size: | 5.0" x 3.5" x
1.15" 127 x 89 x 29 mm3 |
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Weight: | 3.7 ounces, 106 grams | Serial No: | |
Batteries: | 9-Volt | Date of manufacture: | wk 31 year 1981 |
AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | Italy | |
Precision: | Integrated circuits: | TMC1993 | |
Memories: | |||
Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
Download manual: | (US: 3.7M Bytes) |
From the technology this Little Professor from
1980 is similar
to the TI-1000 calculator of the same
epoch but uses the smaller keyboard of the
TI-1010 slimline LCD-calculators.
The
internal design of this Little Professor (1980) is more or less identical to the
second iteration of the Little
Professor (1978) introduced two years earlier. The picture on the right
compares both printed circuit boards (PCBs).
Compared to the first version of the Little Professor this one
could easily recognized at the [ON], [OFF] keys and the [LEVEL] key to adjust
the grade level. Compare it with the Little Professor (1976).
Two years later the Little Professor received a LCD instead the
old fashioned LED display. View both versions introduced in the United
States and United Kingdom.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, October 2, 2002. No reprints without written permission.