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For this week's MM theme, I again, thought of an old friend who's been with me for decades. We spent a lot of nights solving endless problems together and she always got me through each one of them. Things have changed a lot since but I decided to keep her all these years. I'm sure someone out there might still have a slide rule hiding somewhere.
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: NUMBERS AND LETTERS
SUBJECT: A LOYAL CALCULATOR
(less than 2" horizontally)
A vintage Texas Instruments TI-2550 calculator produced between 1974 and 1976 - one of the first hand-held calculators produced by TI. This one being a technological advancement of its predecessors by having memory and percentage functions. Originally sold for $99.95USD in 1974!
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Lit with just window light. Daylight white balance. SOOC, no nothin' done to it!
Canon 6D Mark II and Canon 100mm f2.8L macro IS USM lens.
A bowl full of integrated circuit chips and a DIP switch.
For the curious and/or pedantic, the chips are mostly 7400-series transistor-transisror-logic (TTL) circuits.
DIP stands for Dual Inline Package so technically everything here is in a DIP package but in common usage the groups of switches in this form factor are referred to as DIP-switches.
The calculator that got me through engineering school some 40 years ago. Just like back then, it gives the right answer most of the time.
The Texas Instruments TI 59 was a programmable calculator introduced in 1977. My father did an oilfield engineering degree with this one, i have the dock and printer s well, classic of early technology
This is a dramatized picture I took of my engineering Capstone team this year. They are working on a project involving optical spectrometry and miraculously we found a development board made by Texas Instruments which uses a DLP chip to perform spectroscopy. Even more miraculously, we got Texas Instruments to donate the board. So this picture is supposed to be them awestruck upon opening up the box containing the part for the first time. Notice they are all wearing matching purple team shirts. In that back are Wesley, Daniel, Zach and Cody. Up front are Kelly and Taylor.
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aspen, colorado
1982
power cords, cassette tape drives and a texas instruments calculator
aspen computer society
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
How the old computer stuff is shaping up in the new place. It's still work in progress, but getting there I think.
I'd have some sort of competition to name everything you can see, but there's nothing that rare here and, anyway, a lot of stuff has the name of it on the front/top somewhere....hence I've tagged everything I can instead.
(that said, you don't see Atari 1200XLs, Philips N60s or Timex TS1500s in the UK that often)
Is this really familiar or is it just me? Found it for 20p in a charity shop and was sooooo excited! I don't actually think I had one but some friends of mine definitely did and I loved playing on it.
Who needs Brain Trainer when you can have Little Professor?
Placé dans le salon, ce jeu pédagogique de Manège enchanté datant des années 80 de Texas Instruments très solide et encore à la page ravit tous les petits qui viennent nous rendre visite. Les animaux qui y figurent restent d'actualité et fascinent aussi bien les bambins que leurs aînés. #Macro #MacroMondays #ChildhoodToys
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Texas Instruments introduced the 900 series silicon transistors in 1954, the first silicon transistors in history. The upstart TI of Dallas managed to beat the established East Coast companies to the first silicon products. It was through the hire of important Bell Labs people in the development of silicon that enabled the feat. The higher temperature operation of silicon was preferable over the dominant germanium, so getting Si products into the market would give that company an edge.
TI started transistor development in Lemmon Avenue in Dallas and in 1958 moved to a 300 acre site at North Central Expressway. The Semiconductor building was the first building on the campus. The building is still there (although modified) and is now a Raytheon building following the acquisition of TI's defense business in 1997. I visited the facility during the 2000s and you could still see the roots of TI in the fabric of the building.
hfe=28, Vf=725mV, low gain but it was the first ....
See more at the Semiconductor History blog spingalhistory.blogspot.co.uk/
Placé dans le salon, ce jeu pédagogique de Manège enchanté datant des années 80 de Texas Instruments très solide et encore à la page ravit tous les petits qui viennent nous rendre visite. Les animaux qui y figurent restent d'actualité et fascinent aussi bien les bambins que leurs aînés. #Macro #MacroMondays #ChildhoodToys
Photo taken by Stephan Barth, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
July 1977
N1010A
Gates Learjet 36
36-017
Texas Instruments
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Stephan Barth:
Texas Instruments operated a small fleet of Learjet 36s; their N1010A was just a year old when it visited Munich. The airframe is still on the FAA register in 2022 as N362PJ; however, last seen in 2016 at Hillsboro OR, it seems to have been withdrawn from active flying.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N1010A/739987
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
Photo taken by Stephan Barth, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
October 1986
N1010H
Gates Learjet 36A
36A-044
Texas Instruments
N1010H was one of a few Learjets operating as executive transports for Texas Instruments in the 80ies. It flies as N36LJ on medevac duties at the time of upload in 2022. (Stephan Barth on airhistory.net)
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N1010H/740229
This airframe as N36LJ at YYZ in January 2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/113221006@N05/49440695166
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
The Texas Instruments TI 59 was a programmable calculator introduced in 1979. My father did an oilfield engineering degree with this one, i have the dock and printer s well, classic of early technology
Photo taken by Stephan Barth, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
September 1979
N1010G
Gates Learjet 36A
36A-043
Texas Instruments
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Stephan Barth:
Texas Instruments‘ N1010G was brand new when it visited the old Munich-Riem airport. The airframe was last reported as registered in Mexico as XB-KMN in 2017.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N1010G/740218
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
I am surprised that I used exclamation points for vertical bars. Maybe I didn't know how to type a vertical bar yet—the TI-99/4A had a weird keyboard.
Inside Burr-Brown / Texas Instruments isolated DC/DC converters before being embedded in semiconductor plastic packages.
Cutting edge gaming in 1979. Found this little gem from my childhood in my Mom's attic.Did power up with a fresh battery, but LCD was spotty.
2S005 (black case) from 1962.
2N1303 from 1966
2N1132 from 1973
All working.
6000 Lemmon Avenue is now a Raytheon building (I visited it in the 2000s).
The links below are to other of my Flickr TI photos and some history, the first silicon transistor and an early germanium transistor.
Taken with a Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 135mm f2.8 lens.
Personal Airplane(Texas Instruments)
Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global 6000
N45GX
Taiwan Taipei Songshan Airport
Clive Sinclair formed Sinclair Radionics in 1961, having a good understanding of electronics and transistor manufacturing. Always the entrepreneur he bought a quantity of transistor test failures from Semiconductors Limited (Semics) of Swindon. As seems to be the norm in British semiconductor history, it was convoluted. Semics was actually Plessey who had licensed Micro Alloy Diffused Transistor technology from Philco in the US. Sinclair used the transistors in a very small pre-amplifier and sold both the amplifier and retested/re-badged transistors separately.
He must have done this again as ST140 and ST141 transistors were on the market, albeit probably in relatively small quantities again.
Above is an ST140 Sinclair transistor. There is also an original Philco MADT transistor. In the middle is a UK manufactured Texas Instruments transistor.
Texas Instruments opened a semiconductor plant in Bedford, UK to manufacture transistors, before moving onto standard logic during the 1960s. It eventually closed in 1994. Sinclair became a large customer for TI in the UK through its various Hi-Fi, micro TV and other products including for the supply of custom ICs. Unfortunately the supply of custom TI ICs was problematic and Sinclair went back to standard logic for the ZX80 home computer and Ferranti Uncommited Logic Arrays for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum.
The ST140 is an npn, hfe49, vf=715mV, so silicon.
plano, texas
1977
texas instruments sign
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Type: Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global 6000
c/n: 9459
Owner: Texas Instruments
Location: Glasgow
Date: 26 April 2016
See my non-aviation photos at www.flickr.com/photos/paul_thallon/
Thanks to Martijn Boer for providing the board with this chip on it.
This chip was really hard to identify, and I had to dig up some Nokia 5110 service manuals and technical documents to even identify it and get a rough idea of what it does. Upon searching the writing on the chip package, I found nothing relevant, so I went ahead and cracked it open in hopes that an on-die marking could help me out. At the center of the chip there is some inscriptions which gave me some clues. First off, the TWL91310 or MSW/ABB strings did not bring up anything. The COBBAGJ string is what led me to discover the Nokia 5110 service manuals which told me what this chip is. Also on the bottom left there is the Texas Instruments logo and a timestamp for 1999. This leads me to believe it was probably a custom design requested by Nokia since you can usually find Texas instruments datasheets quite easily.
Here's a section from the technical documentation explaining what this chip does:
"The COBBA–GJ provides an interface between the baseband and the RF–circuitry. COBBA–GJ performs analogue to digital conversion of the receive signal. For transmit path COBBA_GJ performs digital to analogue conversion of the transmit amplifier power control ramp and the in–phase and quadrature signals. A slow speed digital to analogue converter will provide automatic frequency control (AFC). The COBBA asic is at any time connected to MAD asic with two interfaces, one for transferring tx and rx data between MAD and COBBA and one for transferring codec rx/tx samples."
(MAD is the main processor of the phone, largest chip on the board)
So it appears to be responsible for some cellular signal processing. In other places in the technical documentation it also talks about how this chip handles some audio processing and codecs as well.
Also, there is an American flag in the top right of the image, close up here: flic.kr/p/2memuEn
Camera: SONY A6000
Number of Images: 63
Panorama Y Axis: 9 Images
Panorama X Axis: 7 Images
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/3"
Light Source: Internal Lamp
DIC: Yes
Overlap: 50%
Microscope Objective: 10X
Microscope Eyepiece: DSLR Mount
Grid Used: 4x4 (Panning Movement Aid)
Capture Motion: ZigZag
Stitching Software: Autopano Giga
Other Software: Gimp for white-balancing and sharpening.
Image Type: JPG, 96% quality