How the Texas Instruments TI-30 Calculator Took Over the World: E19/R2
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Texas Instruments isn’t a calculator company, even though that is how most consumers think of the venerable electronics giant. In fact, TI mostly manufactures electronics modules for other companies’ products, and harkens back to a past steeped in US defense electronics development. Of course, TI does manufacture calculators, and none are more recognizable than the TI-30 scientific calculator. TI used the TI-30 in the mid-1970’s to dominate the nascent calculator market-a maneuver so expertly executed that it led the company to try the same thing in personal computers. Join us as we review the history of the TI-30 and how it stacked up to its competitors, and its relevance in the current smart device era.
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I use a calculator daily at work for simple calculations while I record data and while my smartphone can certainly handle it, I much prefer the tactile experience of buttons over a touchscreen.
I also work outside in all weather and often in the dark and dropping my smartphone and damaging it is a real possibility.
My current calculator for work is an old Texas Instruments TI-1025.
Very common, still readily available on ebay and elsewhere so very affordable, and the VFD display is much appreciated in the dark.
Had a TI-30 back in high school (early 1980s). It's main weakness was that the LED display burned through 9v batteries pretty quick and the buttons wore out.
40 years later, I have a pair of TI-30Xa calculators that I use for work (structural engineering)...one at the office, and one that I keep in the car. I think I have had them for around 20 years and have changed out the batteries two or three times.
They remain a tremendous bargain (~$15) and they do everything I need them to do. Honestly, if you are a young person that lacks the funds for the TI-84 (which is criminally over-priced), this ought to be plenty to get you through most high school and college coursework.
The SR-52 was an earlier Texas Instruments programmable calculator, and had a magnetic card reader. The Programmer is not a programmable calculator, but a calculator designed to assist programmers. The TI-57 was the key programmable calculator in the Majestic range (the type of case the TI-30 was in) and the TI-30 was not the first in the range to use that case.
So he is a part of the lore
Great job no complaints I had ti30 and ti30x
Great video but the TI-30 was functionally identical to the SR-40, but not the SR-50 or the HP35.
You know you have an original TI-30 LED if the key presses; [0] [INV] [tan] lock it up.
The TI Programmer was not a "programmable calculator". It was designed to do binary and related math for (human) programmers of then much larger systems. TI's first truly "programmable" calculator was the SR-52 (although it was quite limited in it's capabilities).
We definitely slipped up in our script editing. The point of that segment was to show the similarity between the TI-30 and subsequent models, rather than emphasize the capabilities of the TI Programmer. If we had gone into the capabilities--rather than saying it was programmable--we should have said the TI Programmer could perform calculations in multiple arithmetic bases. That calculator could perform operations in the normal base-10, but also in base-8 and base-16 for programming other machines (as you said) in assembler. For those that are interested, the SR-52--which was indeed the first TI programmable--was joined by the SR-56 and desktop SR-60. The TI-59--on which the narrator cut his teeth--was the final VFD version of that design family. Anyway, this is one of our earlier videos, so we would like to think we have improved a lot since then! Many thanks for watching and dropping a comment.
The TI-59 has an LED display and is not in the majestic range of TI calculators. The TI-59 was not the final iteration, with the TI-58C coming out later to correct the failings of the TI-58 by adding constant memory. In addition TI made a number of adaptions of the TI-58 / TI-59 for specific purposes, e.g. insurance and navigation.
Nice work
I bang on calculators every day for work as a tool maker. I still have an original ti30. They keys are worn out. Pressing 0 or 5 gets 000 or 555 minutes r if your lucky 00 or 55. Usually use my ti85 from high school or a ti69 I got at a yard sale for $1
I bought the iOS app for $60…well worth it albeit for some missing features…..
Ti-30 used an LED display not a VFD.
The TI-30 has an LED display, not a VFD (10:15)
On smart phones you can also by an HP Prime app for only $25 dollars while the real machine is around $140.