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Texas Instruments TI-30S
| Date of introduction: | 1996 | Display technology: | LCD |
| New price: | Display size: | 8 (5 + 2) | |
| Size: | 4.6" x 2.5" x 0.3" | ||
| Weight: | 1.8 ounces | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | n.a. | Date of manufacture: | mth 10 year 1996 |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | China (N) | |
| Precision: | 11 | Integrated circuits: | Toshiba T6974 |
| Memories: | 1 | ||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
| Download manual: | 
(UK,GER: 1.654 kB) |
Starting
from the very first TI-30 with a red LED-display in the year 1976 all TI-30
variants used an 8-digit display. This is for most calculations convenient but
in scientific notation you'll get only 5 digits of mantissa.
The TI-30X introduced in the year 1993 a major improvement, the display capacity was eXpanded to a full 10 digit mantissa with two independent digits for the exponent. The complete X-family covered 4 models:
 | TI-30X New display with 10 + 2 digits, 3 memories |
| TI-30X SOLAR With Anylite solar-cells |
| TI-35X Adds 2-dim statistics and hex-calculations |
| TI-36X SOLAR With Anylite solar-cells |
Nevertheless TI continued the spirit of the TI-30 with the 5 digit mantissa and brought us this TI-30S and its sibblings TI-25 SOLAR, TI-25 STAT and TI-25X Solar.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, December 5, 2001. No reprints without written permission.