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Texas Instruments TI-37 Galaxy Solar    

Date of introduction:  1985 Display technology:  LCD
New price:   Display size:  10 + 2
Size:  3.5" x 6.0" x 0.70"
 88 x 153 x 18 mm3
   
Weight:  4.0 ounces, 111 grams Serial No:  120427
Batteries:  n.a. Date of manufacture:  mth 11 year 1986
AC-Adapter:   Origin of manufacture:  Japan (T)
Precision:  12 Integrated circuits:  Toshiba T7768
Memories:  1    
Program steps:   Courtesy of:  Joerg Woerner
Download leaflet:   (US: 1.1 MByte)    

The TI-37 Galaxy Solar added a usable display to the TI-35 Galaxy Solar. Instead of 5 digits for the mantissa you could now use 10 digits. Funny thing: The precision of calculations is worser than expected! The same calculator chip was used in the TI-36 Solar.

Difficult to understand is the reason why the same calculator was sold in Europe with the TI-52 Solar name plate. 

We discovered three "calculator pairs" in the Galaxy series:

US-Market

European-Market

TI-35 Galaxy TI-30 Galaxy
TI-35 Galaxy Solar TI-30 Galaxy Solar
TI-37 Galaxy Solar TI-52 Solar

In 1986 the design style of the TI-37 Galaxy Solar was slightly changed. View the "green" calculator here.

The TI-37 GALAXY SOLAR is featured in the Texas Instruments Incorporated bulletin CL-884 dated 1986.

 

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© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.