About the Datamath Calculator Museum

The Datamath Calculator Museum reflects mainly on products from the US based company Texas Instruments (Click the picture to get a bird-view of the Dallas based headquarter). In a first step the museum restricts to calculators and some toys using speech-technology produced before the year 1989. Later products from Texas Instruments will be added step by step. To round off the exhibition you will find products manufactured by Texas Instruments and sold under different badges, too. Just the same things happens with products developed by other companies and sold by Texas Instruments. Another part of the museum gives an overview of important products in the calculator history influenced by Texas Instruments.

The products are placed in the style of a pictured datasheet in so-called Albums, there are a lot of links between these datasheets. Another feature is a alphabetical list of all products featured within the Album.

In the Technical Section you will find a lot of useful information about the AC-adapters and Battery Packs supplied with TI products. Included is very useful information about displays and integrated circuits and some wonderful X-RAY pictures of early calculators.

In the Historical Section you will find the story of the portable calculator starting with the Caltech Project initiated by Texas Instruments in the year 1965 following the path to the Datamath calculator and finishing with the first graphical calculator.

In the Download Section you will find manuals, calculator simulations and sound samples of TI products.

In the Link Section you will find some useful links to other calculator collectors concentrating on (at least not ignoring) TI products.

In this About Section you will find more information about the companies featured in the Datamath Calculator Museum and last but not least, some information about me.

In the Update Section all major additions or changes of the Datamath Calculator Museum are reported.

If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.

© Joerg Woerner, January 13, 2001. No reprints without written permission.