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Texas Instruments TI-60 (1^st design)

Date of introduction:	1986	Display technology:	LCD
New price:		Display size:	10 (7+2)
Size:	5.8" x 2.8" x 0.85"
Weight:	3.5 ounces	Serial No:
Batteries:	2*LR44	Date of manufacture:	wk 20 year 1987
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	Italy
Precision:	13	Integrated circuits:	CD4815, CD4614
Memories:	1-12
Program steps:	84-7	Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner
		Download manuals:	(GER: 7.261 kB) (US: 4.948 kB) (US:43.337 kB)

The TI-60 Advanced Scientific calculator is somewhat different from the other members of the second generation slanted family. If you compare it with the TI-55-III you will notice first a black instead of a silver housing and second another display. All other slanted calculators offer you a mantissa of 8 digits and 2 exponents, the TI-60 uses 10 digits to display either the mantissa or combine 7 digits mantissa and 2 exponents. The reason is the enhanced precision of internal calculations, here you get similar performance like the TI-62 and TI-65 of the Galaxy line.

The TI-60 is one of the famous "nearly programmable" calculators, you can store up to 84 key-codes in a permanent memory shared with the storage place for the statistical calculations and user memory.

Inside the calculator you'll find once again the two-chip design of most slanted calculators that allowed more features compared to the slimline series.
Instead of the two TP0456 based chips of the TI-55-II you'll find here a TP0458 Master with a TP0456 Slave chip.

The design of the TI-60 was changed around 1990, please compare the bottom line of a later TI-60:

	1986: ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC
	1990: PROGRAMMABLE SCIENTIFIC

If you are interested in the calculating accuracy of scientific calculators don't miss the Calculator forensics.

Like usual there is a counterpart for financial purposes, don't miss the rare BA-III calculator.

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