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Texas Instruments TI-34 MultiView™

Date of introduction:	May 9, 2007 Available: Feb. 21, 2008	Display technology:	LCD dot matrix
New price:		Display size:	4 * 16 characters (5 * 19 for menus)
Size:	6.5" x 3.1" x 0.6"
Weight:	3.8 ounces	Serial No:
Batteries:	Solar cells + CR2032	Date of manufacture:	mth 01 year 2008
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	China (N)
Precision:	13	Integrated circuits:
Memories:	7
Program steps:		Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner

Texas Instruments announced in May 2007 with the TI-34 MultiView the successor of its long lasting TI-34 II introduced already in 1999 and slightly redesigned in 2004.

Due to some design problems with the calculator it took until February 2008 before the TI-34 MultiView arrived together with the TI-Collège Plus finally in the store shelves. Don't miss one of the pre-series TI-34 MultiView.

Instead of the then novel 2-line display the TI-34 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-34 II compatible "Classic" mode.

Compared with the original TI-34 II, we notice some major improvements:

	Classic (compatible with TI-34 II) 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
	Toggle key fractions and decimals
	Equation entries up to 80 digits

Dismantling the TI-34 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 featured calculator was manufacturered by Nam Tai Electronics, Inc ., a well-known company with OEM calculator production facilities in Shenzen, China.

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

Don't miss the battery powered TI-30XB MultiView and its solar-cells operated sibbling TI-30XS MultiView sold since July 2007.

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