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The Educator® Advanced

Date of introduction:  July 1997 Display technology:  LCD 
New price:  $95 Display size:  10 + 2
Size:  8.0" x 4.0" x 0.35"    
Weight:  4.9 ounces Serial No:  
Batteries:  n.a. Date of manufacture:  
AC-Adapter:   Origin of manufacture:  China
Precision:  12 Integrated circuits:  Toshiba T7988
Memories:  1    
Program steps:   Courtesy of:  Joerg Woerner

Advanced_1.jpg (315730 Byte)The California based company Stokes Publishing Company, Inc. distributes under the label "The Educator®" calculators optimized for teaching purposes. William T. Stokes filed already July 30, 1991 the US Patent Application U.S. Pat. No. 5,035,502 with the title "Transparent calculator for overhead projection".

Advanced_Back.jpg (458338 Byte)Both the keyboard and the display are made from translucent glass and plastics. Using a simple overhead projector the teacher could demonstrate easily the function of a calculator. 

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he successor of the original Advanced emulates the Texas Instruments TI-34 introduced already in 1989 and redesigned in 1996.

Overhead™ Calculator is a trademark of Stokes Publishing Company, Inc.


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© Joerg Woerner, November 13, 2007. No reprints without written permission.