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Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS (Staples)
| Date of introduction: | July 2016 | Display technology: | LCD |
| New price: | Office Depot: $10.99 Staples: $9.99 Office Max: $9.99 Best Buy: $10.99 Amazon: $16.47 Shopko: $16.99 |
Display size: | 11 characters and 10 +2 |
| Size: | 6.1" x 3.2" x 0.6" 154 x 83 x 15 mm³ |
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| Weight: | 3.3 ounces, 94 grams | Serial No: | |
| Batteries: | Solar cells + CR2025 (60µA) | Date of manufacture: | mth 03 year 2016 (P) |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | Philippines (L) | |
| Precision: | 13 | Integrated circuits: | |
| Memories: | 5 | ||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
This
white colored TI-30X IIS was manufactured by Kinpo Electronics,
Inc. for the office product retailer Staples. It was released for the
Back-to-School 2016 campaign together
with its pink sibling and the TI-84 Plus CE in the colors
Gold, White, Radical Red and Positively Pink.
Disassembling
this model of the TI-30X IIS manufactured March 2016 by
Kinpo Electronics, Inc. in the
Philippines reveals a well known internal
construction. We discovered already in 2004 with Inventec
Shanghai, Kinpo Electronics,
Inc. and Nam
Tai Electronics, Inc. three different contract manufacturers for the TI-30X
IIS. Comparing two calculators with date codes K-0304 and K-0409 yields no
significant differences.
In Summer 2016 nine
retailers used the design: Amazon, Best Buy, The Douglas Stewart Co., El Dorado
Trading Group, Fred Meyer, meijer, Office Depot / Office Max, Shopko and Staples (in alphabetical order).
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, September 4, 2016. No reprints without written permission.