The
Radio Shack EC-4000 (aka)
The Texas Instruments TI-57
Display: LED, 8 digits (+2 Sci. Not.)
Power: 2AA nicads in proprietary package (BP-7), AC adaptor
Adv. Functions: Trig, logs, stats
Memories: 8
Programming: 50 merged steps with branching and labels.
Comments: $79.95 in 1977 (when introduced). One of TI's early "one-chip"
calculators, the IC which runs this sports about 30,000 transistors (as
opposed to the millions of today).
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