Texas Instruments TI-2700 Mini Data Bank

Texas Instruments introduced in the year 1987 this powerful TI-2700 Mini Data Bank. The memory capacity of 2.8k Byte RAM holds as much as 150 names and the related phone number, anniversary date or similar.

A metal plate above the keyboard could be shifted a fraction of an inch to cover the hidden calculator functions. Don't miss the innovative design of the TI-2900 Info Bank.

The innovative Mini Data Bank traces back to the Time Manager. A similar product was introduced by Toshiba nine years earlier with the LC-836MN.

Don't miss the odd PS-9100 Jot-it Appointment Reminder.

About three years later with the TI-2100 Pocket Info a similar product with the size of a credit card was introduced. The PS-2100 continued the line of small Databanks. 

The TI-3100 Pocket Dialer combined the Databank feature with a small loudspeaker to generate the multifrequency dial tones. The TI-2400 Phone Bank uses only 9 keys for alphanumeric entry like a phone.

In Germany the color schema of the TI-2700 Mini Data Bank was slightly changed.

Texas Instruments launched in 1987 a very innovative product line with the TI-2400 Phone Bank, TI-2600 Personal Banker, TI-2700 Mini Data Bank, and TI-2800 Paperless Printer followed till 1990 with the TI-2100 Pocket Info, TI-2900 Info Bank, TI-3100 Pocket Dialer, TI-3200 Pro Dialer, and TI-3400 Europa.

If you know the history of Texas Instruments it seems to commemorate the introduction of the TI-2500 Datamath a quarter century ago.

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© Joerg Woerner, January 17, 2002. No reprints without written permission.