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Texas Instruments TI-30Xa Solar

Date of introduction:  1996 Display technology:  LCD
New price:  $11.99 Display size:  10 + 2
Size:  5.9" x 3.0" x 0.50"    
Weight:  2.9 ounces Serial No:  
Batteries:  n.a. Date of manufacture:  mth 02 year 1997
AC-Adapter:   Origin of manufacture:  China
Precision:  12 Integrated circuits:  Toshiba T6M79
Memories:  3    
Program steps:   Courtesy of:  Joerg Woerner

In the year 1996 Texas Instruments changes the design of the scientific calculators to a smoother design and replaced the original TI-30Xa SOLAR. The family covers:

TI-30Xa
TI-30Xa Solar
TI-36X Solar   Includes 2-dim statistics, conversions 
and binary/hexadecimal number bases

Within this family two financial calculators appeared:

BA Real Estate
BA-35 Solar

The next step in this calculator line is the TI-30X IIS with a two-line display.

A more robust calculator was available short time in the housing of the TI-32 Explorer Plus as TI-30Xa SE. In 2005 Texas Instruments failed with the TI-30Xa Solar School Edition for Virginia and recalled about 160,000 calculators.

This TI-30 Xa Solar is one of the 6 calculators that were awarded with the Blue Angle environmental label. But Texas Instruments never decorated the calculator with the logo.

In Germany this calculator survived with that marketing concept. View the TI-30 eco RS.
Read more about the Logarithm Bug and its side effect on the related yx function present in this calculator.

 



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