Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 2004
name: label: maker
content: Texas Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: This symbolic graphing calculator, sold by Texas Instruments, was introduced in 2004 as an improved version of the TI-89. The handheld electronic calculator has a black plastic case with a sliding cover that can also serve as a stand, and a silver plastic keyboard. It has an array of forty-one plastic keys of diverse shapes, many of which can take on three meanings. These include a wide number of arithmetic, trigonometric, statistical, algebraic, and analytic functions. Letters of the alphabet also can be represented. The calculator also has three arrow keys, plus a row of five keys immediately under the display that relate to graphing, tables, and preprogrammed functions. In addition to performing a wide range of calculations, the calculator could display text or icons. It also could display two-dimensional graphs of rectangular, parametric or polar functions simultaneously, either overlapping or on a split screen. Three-dimensional functions also could be shown. It also could list tables and calculate and display derivatives and integrals of functions.
label: Description
content: A mark above the display reads: TI-89 Titanium (/) TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI-89. A cable allowed sharing data with other instruments.
label: Description
content: A mark toward the top of the back of the calculator reads: 2035034432 S-0604A. A compartment below this holds four AAA batteries as well as a small 303 CR or SR44SW backup battery. A mark inside the battery compartment reads in part: MADE IN CHINA. Further text indicates that the design was copyrighted in 2004.
label: Description
content: Included with the calculator are USB and link cables, a manual, a CD with instructions, and two advertising sheets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Handheld Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Texas Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0214.01
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0214.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
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content: paper (cocumantation material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 8.89 cm x 19.05 cm