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Texas Instruments TI-30XB MultiView™

Date of introduction:	May 9, 2007 Available: July 2007	Display technology:	LCD dot matrix
New price:	€20.99	Display size:	4 * 16 characters (5 * 19 for menus)
Size:	6.7" x 3.3" x 0.6"
Weight:	5.2 ounces	Serial No:
Batteries:	CR2032	Date of manufacture:	mth 06 year 2007
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	China (K)
Precision:	13	Integrated circuits:
Memories:	7
Program steps:		Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner

Texas Instruments announced in May 2007 with the TI-30XS MultiView the successor of its long lasting TI-30X IIS introduced already in 1999 and slightly redesigned in 2004. In some European countries, e.g. Germany, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, with the TI-30XB MultiView a battery only powered replacement of the original TI-30X IIB hit in July 2007 the store shelves. In France an otherwise identical TI-30XB MultiView sports a wonderful green housing.

Instead of the previous 2-line display the TI-30XB MultiView features a dot matrix display with 31 * 96 addressable pixels allowing the calculator to display equations as they would be printed in a text book.

In addition to this so called "MathPrint" mode the calculator sports a TI-30X IIB compatible "Classic" mode.

Compared with the original TI-30X IIB, the quasi-standard for pupils, we notice more bang (typical street price EUR 17.95 in July 1997) for less bucks:

	Classic (compatible with TI-30X IIB) and MathPrint Mode
	EOS with 8 pending operations and 23 levels of parentheses
	7 memory variables x, y, z, t, a, b, c
	Data editor and list formulas: 3 lists, each up to 42 items
	Function table
	Toggle key fractions and decimals
	Equation entries up to 80 digits

Dismantling the TI-30XB MultiView reveals a pretty common construction with two printed circuit boards (PCB's). The main PCB hides the single-chip calculating circuit under a small protection blob of black epoxy and drives the graphing display with a heat sealed fine-pitch connector. The keyboard makes use of a much simpler second PCB and a heat sealed connector, too. The prominent SR-21B designation on the main PCB proves that this calculator was manufacturered by Kinpo Electronics, Inc., a famous company located in Taiwan and doing calculator production for well established companies like Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, Casio, Canon and Citizen.

Don't miss the TI-34 MultiView and the TI-Collège Plus.

We expect later in 2007 from Stokes Publishing Company, Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California a companion for the teacher with a projectable display.

Find here the original press release dated May 9, 2007.

If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.