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Texas Instruments TI-808 (Third Design)

Date of introduction:	1988	Display technology:	LCD dot matrix
New price:		Display size:	8
Size:	4.7" x 4.1" x 0.9" 120 x 105 x 23 mm³
Weight:	2.7 ounces, 76 grams	Serial No:
Batteries:	n.a.	Date of manufacture:	mth 10 year 1988
AC-Adapter:		Origin of manufacture:	Taiwan (C)
Precision:	8	Integrated circuits:
Memories:	1
Program steps:		Courtesy of:	Joerg Woerner

Texas Instruments introduced in 1986 with the TI-808 a small desktop calculator with a dot matrix display. It looks today like a marketing gag, neither readability nor design of the numbers was enhanced to standard calculators like the TI-1795+. While the TI-808 (Second Design) changed in 1987 the color scheme of the calculator, switched this TI-808 (Third Design) the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) to a standard product with actually superior contrast.

Dismantling this TI-808 (Third Design) manufactured in October 1988 by Compal Electronics in Taiwan shows that only the LC-Display was redesigned, the printed circuit board (PCB) of the calculator is still labeled (TI-)508(-12).

Don't miss the white sibling of the TI-808.

If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.