Hardware

Name Sort descending Description
Texas Instruments PS-2400

The PS-2400 Databank stores 125 names and numbers in a 2k Byte memory.The display of the PS-2400 consists of one line for alphanumeric characters and one line supporting only numbers.

Texas Instruments PS-2400+

The PS-2400+ Databank stores 150 names and numbers in a small housing with a protection lid. It traces back to the PS-2400 introduced already in the year 1992.

Texas Instruments PS-2460i

The PS-2460i Databank stores 150 names and numbers in a small housing with a protection lid. In addition you get an alarm clock and a useful calculator with metric-US conversion capabilities. The…

Texas Instruments PS-3000 Pocket Speller

This small Pocket Speller is from the hardware and software very similiar to the earlier RR-1 Spell Checker introduced one year earlier.

Texas Instruments PS-3010

The PS-3010 Databank combines a full keyboard with a very small housing. The specifications are identical with the PS-2000 and PS 20/20.

Texas Instruments PS-3600

The PS-3600 could be called "medium sized" Databank. It features more RAM than the simple Databanks PS-2100 and PS-2400 but far less capabilities than the Personal Organizers, e.g. the PS-6200.…

Texas Instruments PS-3600+

The PS-3600+ Databank stores like its predecessor PS-3600 about 500 names and numbers in a small package with a protection lid.

Texas Instruments PS-3660i

The PS-3660i looks similar to the earlier PS-3600+ but added the INDIGLO backlight feature. The otherwise identical PS-3960i accomodates an additional memory chip with combined 40k byte of RAM. A…

Texas Instruments PS-3960i

The PS-3960i looks similar to the earlier PS-3600+ but added the INDIGLO backlight feature and raised the memory capacity to 40k Byte.The display of the PS-3960i consists of one line for…

Texas Instruments PS-4000 Pocket Thesaurus / Speller

This small Pocket Thesaurus is from the hardware and software almost identical to the RR-2 Thesaurus / Spell Checker introduced one year earlier.

Texas Instruments PS-5400 Translator

The PS-5400 Translator was introduced about two years after the first Pocket Translator PS-5600. Instead the foldable housing with a wide display line a housing similar to the early Databanks, e.g…

Texas Instruments PS-5600 Translator

Texas Instruments introduced already in the year 1990 this powerful multi-language Translator with integrated Databank feature.

Texas Instruments PS-5800 Translator

Texas Instruments introduced a very powerful Translator in a housing similar to the PS-3600 Databank.The internal memory stores about 10,000 words, 420 business words and 920 complete sentences in…

Texas Instruments PS-6100

The PS-6100 Organizer is similar to the PS-3600+ Databank but added both memory and functionality.The PS-6100 organizer keeps three main types of information: Reminders, Addresses and Notes.

Texas Instruments PS-6155

The PS-6155 connects the Organizer with a IBM-compatible PC and synchronises the Organizer with Lotus Organizer 97 software. The PS-6155 fits to the PS-6300 series, the PS-6360i series, PS-6700…

Texas Instruments PS-6200

Texas Instruments entered already in 1991 with the PS-6200 the market of Personal Organizers. The design of the PS-6200 was changed in 1992 slightly, please focus on the position of the Texas…

Texas Instruments PS-6200 Organiser

Texas Instruments entered already in 1991 with the PS-6200 Organiser the market of Personal Organizers in Europe. In the United States an almost identical product was sold as PS-6200 Organizer.…

Texas Instruments PS-6300

The PS-6300 organizer keeps three main types of information: Reminders, Addresses and Notes. Within these three areas, there are many different ways to store and recall information. The huge…

Texas Instruments PS-6360i

The PS-6360i replaced the earlier PS-6300 within one year.The internal construction of the PS-6360i is typical for the whole line of TI organizers.

Texas Instruments PS-6500

The internal construction of the PS-6500 is typical for the whole line of TI organizers. A 8-bit microcomputer system based on a Toshiba microcontroller surrounded by 128k RAM, 64k ROM and a…

Texas Instruments PS-6560i

The PS-6560i replaced the earlier PS-6500 within one year.The LCD screen of the PS-6560i displays only 4 lines by 24 characters.

Texas Instruments PS-6600

This PS-6600 was manufactured in 1994 and carries just the PS-6600 designation above the LCD-screen instead the former "PS-6600 Organiser". Everything else is identical with the predecessor.

Texas Instruments PS-6600 Organiser

The PS-6600 Organiser continued the approach started with the PS-6200 Organizer and leading to products like the PS-6700 before ending with the PocketMate 300 in the year 1999. In the United…

Texas Instruments PS-6700

The PS-6700 organizer keeps three main types of information: Reminders, Addresses and Notes. Within these three areas, there are many different ways to store and recall information. The huge…

Texas Instruments PS-6760Si

The PS-6760Si replaced the earlier PS-6700 within one year.The internal construction of the PS-6760Si is typical for the whole line of TI organizers.

Texas Instruments PS-6800

The PS-6800 was replaced soon with the PS-6860Si and within another year with the PocketMate 300.

Texas Instruments PS-6860Si

The PS-6860Si replaced the earlier PS-6800 within one year.The hardware resembles more or less its predecessor PS-6800 but is centered around a Toshiba T6M88 Application Specific CPU based on the…

Texas Instruments PS-6960Si

he PS-6960Si replaced the earlier PS-6800 within one year and doubled the memory capacity to 256k Byte.The PS-6960Si uses two driver chips in Chip-on-Board (COB) technolgy on the Main-PCB.

Texas Instruments PS-9500 TimeRunner

The TimeRunner series of Organizers were introduced already in 1993 and far ahead the competition. With the slim housing measuring only 0.2 inch they fitted perfectly in a Day Runner system…

Texas Instruments PS-CARD

The PS-CARD is obviously based on the European edition of the PS-2100.

Texas Instruments RR-1 Spell-Checker

Texas Instruments introduced already in 1989 this powerful Spell-Checker RR-1.Spell-Checker RR-1 reveals a rather complex printed circuit board (PCB) centered around a Z80 compatible Toshiba…

Texas Instruments RR-2 Thesaurus / Spell Checker

Texas Instruments introduced already in the year 1989 this powerful combination of a Thesaurus and a Spell-Checker. In Germany it was advertised as PS-4500.

Texas Instruments SC-10 Collegiate

The Texas Instruments SC-10 Collegiate is a scientific calculator with 10 digits precision and algebraic logic. It has 177 functions, 82 keys and an LCD (liquid crystal) display. The power source…

Texas Instruments Spirit of '76

The European market received the TI-1260, the US market the Spirit of '76. This wonderful calculator was designed to commemorate the 200th birthday of the United States of America.

Texas Instruments SR-10

The SR-10 was introduced only few month after TI's first calculator, the famous Datamath or TI-2500.This is an example of the first model of a scientific calculator marketed by Texas Instruments…

Texas Instruments SR-11

The SR-11 calculator added a constant-switch and PI to the wedge shaped predecessor SR-10. More notable was the new layout of the keyboard, with the SR-11 Texas Instruments introduced the smaller…

Texas Instruments SR-16

The SR-16 Slide Rule Calculator, used the packaging size of the SR-10 but had extra keys for doing logarithims and fractional exponents, but no trig functions. Its novelty was quickly outmoded…

Texas Instruments SR-16 II

The Texas Instruments SR-16 II is a scientific calculator with 8 digits precision and algebraic logic. It has 15 functions, 31 keys and an LED (light-emitting diode) display, typical of…

Texas Instruments SR-20

The SR-20 is one of the few scientific desktop calculators manufactured by Texas Instruments. In a housing with the size of a TI-3500 but the extreme wedge shape of the SR-10 you find some useful…

Texas Instruments SR-22

This calculator could perform amazing calculations. It is the only calculator reported so far to perform Octal-Decimal-Hexadecimal conversions on the base of floating point numbers.

Texas Instruments SR-40

The SR-40 was introduced mid of 1976 together with the entry calculator TI-30 and the financial calculator Business Analyst. These three calculators defined a new manufacturing approach within…

Texas Instruments SR-40 LCD

The Texas Instruments SR-40 LCD is a scientific calculator with 8 digits precision and algebraic logic. It has 29 functions, 40 keys and an LCD (liquid crystal) display. The power source is 2xAA…

Texas Instruments SR-50

The SR-50 was Texas Instruments' first scientific pocket calculator with trigonometric and logarithm functions. It enhanced their earlier SR-10 and SR-11 calculators, introduced in 1973, which had…

Texas Instruments SR-50A

The SR-50A was introduced shortly after the SR-50 to to reduce manufacturing costs. The only advantage compared to early SR-50 calculators is the higher calculating precision.

Texas Instruments SR-51

With the SR-51 Texas Instruments started a series of scientific calculators that added statistical functions and conversions to the "usual functions".

Texas Instruments SR-51-II

The Texas Instruments SR-51-II is a scientific calculator with 8 digits precision and algebraic logic. It has 58 functions, 40 keys and an LED (light-emitting diode) display, typical of…

Texas Instruments SR-51A

The Texas Instruments SR-51A is a scientific calculator with 10 digits precision and algebraic logic. It has 42 functions, 40 keys and an LED (light-emitting diode) display, typical of calculators…

Texas Instruments SR-52

Introduced in fall 1975, this wonderful calculator integrated a card reader for magnetic strips, a huge memory for 224 steps and the revolutionary AOS entry into a housing similar to the SR-50A…

Texas Instruments SR-56

Introduced only few month after the SR-52 programmable, the SR-56 was it's small brother.This calculator works with both the PC-100 and PC-100A printer cradle.

Texas Instruments SR-60

Texas Instruments introduced in 1976 with the SR-60 their first high-end programmable desktop calculator.SR-60 resembled more a computer than a programmable calculator.

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