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Texas Instruments SR-10 Version 2 (Rebuilt)
Date of introduction: | December 1976 | Display technology: | LED modules + lens |
New price: | ($149.95) | Display size: | 8 + 2 |
Size: | 6.3" x 3.1" x
1.5" 158 x 78 x 38 mm3 |
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Weight: | 9.2 ounces, 262 grams | Serial No: | 941644 |
Batteries: | 3*AA NiCd | Date of manufacture: | wk 50 year 1976 (Rebuilt) |
AC-Adapter: | AC9200, AC9130 | Origin of manufacture: | USA |
Precision: | 8 | Integrated circuits: | TMS0120, 2*SN27915, 2*SN27423 |
Logic: | Chain | Displays: | DIS115F (12*DISXXX) |
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Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner | |
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The
SR-10 was introduced only few month after TI's first calculator, the famous Datamath
or TI-2500. Today we wouldn't call it a Scientific calculator, but it used the scientific
notation on the display. Texas Instruments targeted the slide rules, guess what
the abbreviation "SR" in the designation stands for.
Dismantling
this unique SR-10 rebuilt in December 1976 by Texas Instruments reveals an
internal construction identical with the SR-10 Version 2
manufactured between December 1973 and Spring 1975. We assume that Texas
Instruments' Repair Center was in December 1976 short of original keyboards and
combined some blue keys from both the TI-150
([C] key] and Montgomery Ward
P300 [1/x], [x2],
and [sqrx] keys) with the
white, gray, and orange keys of the original SR-10.
The
SR-10 makes use of the TMS0120 single-chip calculator circuit derived from the TMS1802,
better known as first "calculator-on-a-chip".
The remaining components found inside an early SR-10 are basically known from the Datamath, too.
The
two plus two display-drivers SN27915
(SN75493) and SN27423 (SN75494) located in
the featured SR-10 are improvements of the original
SN75491/SN75492
chips introduced with the TMS1802 but allow for operation at lower voltages. The
lower half of the printed circuit board (PCB) contains mainly a discrete power converter to generate the three different
supplies voltages used with the calculator and the generation of the clock
signal for the TMS0120 chip.
The
Klixon™ type keyboard looks
very similar to the Datamath calculator with some additional keys placed in the
upper line. Later calculators like the SR-11 changed the
style of keys but the extreme wedge-style of the housing consists nearly 2 years.
Last model in the wedge design was the SR-16. Don't
miss to explore the huge wedge calculators SR-20
and SR-22.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, Aptil 4, 2021. No reprints without written permission.