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Texas Instruments SOLAR Little Professor (1997)

Date of introduction:  1997 Display technology:  LCD
New price:   Display size:  8
Size:  5.8" x 2.9" x 0.5"    
Weight:  2.3 ounces Serial No:  
Batteries:  n.a. Date of manufacture:  mth 07 year 1998
AC-Adapter:   Origin of manufacture:  China
Precision:   Integrated circuits:  
Memories:      
Program steps:   Courtesy of:  Joerg Woerner

Compared with the early Little Professor with the LED display this one uses a LCD to ask the child one of thousands preprogrammed math questions.

Prof-97_2_PCB.jpg (69233 Byte)Dismantling the SOLAR Little Professor reveals a well known internal construction. We know this type of design and even the housing from scientific calculators like the TI-36X Solar. Please remember that the very first models of the Little Professor family based on simple 4-functions calculators.  

A very similar styling was used on the products manufactured in Italy. Compare it here.



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© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.