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Texas Instruments TI-30XS MultiView™ (Office Depot)
Date of introduction: | July 2011 | Display technology: | LCD dot matrix |
New price: | Office Depot: $15.99 | Display size: | 4 * 16 characters (5 * 19 for menus) |
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 03 year 2011 (G) |
AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | China (K) | |
Precision: | 13 | Integrated circuits: | |
Memories: | 7 | ||
Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
This pink colored TI-30XS MultiView was manufactured by Kinpo Electronics, Inc. for the office product retailer Office Depot. It was released for the Back-to-School 2011 campaign together with a pink TI-30X IIS and the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition in the colors of pink and black. Staples added this TI-30XS MultiView for the Back-to-School 2012 campaign to its selection.
Don't miss the lime-green colored TI-30XS MultiView introduced in 2017 and the pink colored TI-30XS MultiView released in Summer 2024.
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 (PCBs). 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 SR21 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, July 31, 2011. No reprints without written permission.