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Texas Instruments PS-6700
| Date of introduction: | Jan.5, 1996 | Display technology: | LCD dot matrix |
| New price: | $69.00 | Display size: | 6 lines by 24 char |
| Size: | 3.3" x 5.1" x 0.65" | ||
| Weight: | 5.3 ounces | Serial No: | 0000047 |
| Batteries: | 2*CR2032 | Date of manufacture: | mth 07 year 1995 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | Taiwan | |
| Precision: | 12 | Integrated circuits: | Toshiba T6M76, 2*UM62256, AT27C512 |
| Memories: | 64kB RAM | ||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
Texas Instruments introduced early in the year 1996 a
new series of Personal Organizers. It could be traced back to the PS-6200, the
first Organizer with the Texas Instruments label.
This PS-6700 looks identical to the PS-6800 with more storage capacity. Like most other PS-6xxx products these two products are compatible with the PS-6155 Dock-station cradle. The PS-6155 connects the Organizer with a IBM-compatible PC and synchronises the Organizer with Lotus Organizer 97 software.
The PS-6700 organizer keeps three main types of information: Reminders, Addresses and Notes. Within these three areas, there are many different ways to store and recall information. The huge memory of the PS-6700 with 64k Bytes size is flexible and could be divided without any limitations among the three files. In addition to the basic Organizer function you'll discover:
 | A flexible clock with 12-hour AM/PM or 24-hour time |
| A calendar from January, 1960 to December, 2059. |
| A calculator with 10-digits display capacity and 12-digits of accuracy |
| World time of 62 cities in all 24 time zones supporting one home city and 4 world cities |
| A backup battery |
The
display of the PS-6700 is very useful supporting 6 lines by 24 characters with
crystal clear letters.
The PS-6700 was replaced soon with the PS-6760Si and within another year with
the PocketMate 200. Models with much more memory were available with the
PS-6860Si / PocketMate 300 (128k Byte RAM) and PS-6960Si /
PocketMate 400 (256k
Byte RAM).
The hardware of the PS-6700 is similar to a lot of other products: A 8-bit microprocessor of the Z80 family, a huge ROM of 64k Byte capacity, a RAM of 64k Byte size and a driver for the LCD display. You'll find similar architectures with just another balance of RAM and ROM capacity:
| Product | ROM-size | RAM-size | Example |
| Spell-Checker | 128k Byte | 2k Byte | RR-1 |
| Data Bank | 64k Byte | 64k Byte | PS-6700 |
| Graphing calculator | 128k Byte | 8k Byte | TI-81 |
| Modern graphing calc | 512k Byte | 32k Byte | TI-83 Plus |
The pictured PS-6700 is serial number 0000047 and uses an
alterable EPROM for the main software instead the later Read-Only-Memory !
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, January 17, 2002. No reprints without written permission.