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Texas Instruments TI-82 STATS
| Date of introduction: | June 2012 | Display technology: | LCD dot matrix |
| New price: | EUR 59.95 | Display size: | 8 * 16 characters |
| Size: | 7.2" x 3.2" x 0.85" 183 x 82 x 22 mm3 |
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| Weight: | 6.0 ounces, 171 grams | Serial No: | 2814004502 |
| Batteries: | 4*AAA + CR1620 (35mA) | Date of manufacture: | mth 09 year 2012 (G) |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | China (P) | |
| Precision: | 14 | Integrated circuits: | ASIC: TI REF TI-738X Flash: EN29AL004D70 Display: Toshiba T6K04 |
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| Program steps: | 28k Bytes | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
Texas
Instruments introduced in 2004 with the TI-82 STATS in
France a Graphing calculator with some improvements compared to the original TI-82 Parcus. About
two years later, in July 2006, with the TI-82
Stats.fr a Graphing calculator was nationalized for the French market.
In 2009, together with the introduction of the new
entry-level Graphing calculator TI-76.fr, the design
of the TI-82 Stats.fr was changed to darker colors
and in 2012 the same design was available in Germany and a few other European
countries with the original designation TI-82 STATS.
Dismantling
this TI-82 STATS manufactured in September 2012 reveals no surprises, the printed
circuit board (PCB) is identical with its French siblings.
The
picture on the right gives an enhanced view of the ASIC "TI REF TI-738X"
that clocks the Z80
microprocessor with 6 MHz and incorporates the 32ks Byte RAM and some supporting
logic. Learn more about the Hardware Architecture of TI’s Graphing Calculators. The ASIC was probably manufactured by Toshiba and recalls us the TI-83
Plus Silver Edition with the "TI-REF 83PL2M/TA2" ASIC and the early
TI-84 Plus with its "TI-REF 83PLUSB/TA2" ASIC.
The TI-82
STATS
is based - like most Graphing calculators introduced after the TI-73 -
on Flash technology, we located in this TI-82 STATS a Eon Silicon Solution Inc. 29LV400 device with
512k Bytes capacity for programs and data.
A
component not easily detected on the printed circuit board (PCB) of the TI-82
STATS
is the driver circuit of the LC-Display. It is just a bare Toshiba T6K04
chip mounted on
a flexible piece of circuit board attached between the display and the main
PCB.
We prepared together with fellow collector Xavier Andréani a comprehensive
comparison of entry level graphing calculators, to shed some light on the
different specifications of the TI-82 and TI-83 / TI-83 Plus based products.
A serial port of the calculators allows the connection to the Calculator-Based Laboratory system CBL, its successor CBL 2, the Calculator-Based Ranger CBR and its successor CBR 2.
ROM-Versions:
1.11
You can check the ROM version of your TI-82
STATS using the following key sequence and reading the number on your screen:
