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Texas Instruments programmable slide-rule calculator SR-50
Texas Instruments programmable slide-rule calculator SR-50
Texas Instruments programmable slide-rule calculator SR-50

Texas Instruments programmable slide-rule calculator SR-50

physical object

Identifier
2018.12.10
Description
The TI SR-50 model calculator was introduced in 1970. It can do multiplication, division, square root and trigonometry calculations that were possible through slide rules, resulting in its name as a "slide-rule" calculator. The SR-50 was the first model able to do trigonometric and logarithmic operations.
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electronic calculating devices (describes)

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Jack LeSage (was donor of)
Kina Kim (is documentarian of)