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Texas Instruments TI-30XS MultiView™
Date of introduction: | July 2017 | Display technology: | LCD dot matrix |
New price: | Display size: | 4 * 16 characters (5 * 19 for menus) |
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Size: | 6.8" x 3.2" x 0.6" 172 x 83 x 15 mm³ |
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Weight: | 4.2 ounces, 120 grams | Serial No: | |
Batteries: | Solar cells + CR2032 | Date of manufacture: | mth 04 year 2016 (H) |
AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | Philippines (L) | |
Precision: | 13 | Integrated circuits: | |
Memories: | 7 | ||
Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
We noticed this beautiful lime-green colored TI-30XS MultiView in June 2017 on TI's "What's Cool for Back-to-School' website listed under the reseller Amazon. It was most likely - based on its manufacturing date of April 2016 - released for the Back-to-School 2016 campaign but we couldn't locate the original reseller.
Don't miss the pink colored TI-30XS MultiView introduced in 2011.
Instead of the 2-line display
of the TI-30X IIS feature both the TI-30XS MultiView and its battery only powered sibling TI-30XB
MultiView 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 IIS
compatible "Classic" mode.
Compared with the original TI-30X IIS, in the US the
quasi-standard for pupils, we notice more bang ($15.99 versus $14.99) for the bucks:
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Classic (compatible with TI-30X IIS) 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-30XS 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-21 SR-34 designation on the main PCB proves that this calculator was manufactured 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.
Please compare the TI-30XS
MultiView with its competitors Canon
F-718SG, Casio
fx-300ES, Citizen SR-270X
aka Ativa AT-30SX,
Hewlett-Packard SmartCalc 300s,
and Sharp EL-W535.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, August 4, 2017. No reprints without written permission.