I'm a simple man, I see a video about an 80's pocket computer on a channel called Calculator Culture and I subscribe.

Gosh I was like 6 yrs old and got this new as a birthday present or something and I learned BASIC and I loved this thing up through college I would play with it occasionally in class if I wasn't playing with my TI-94 I think it was..... The badass one from mid to late 90s lol Ah, good times.... Still got a TI-83 Plus and Casio fx-7400G Plus that work perfectly and look almost perfect. 😁😎

This BASICALC is a bit schizophrenic - the BASIC and CALC modes are completely separate, unlike the CASIO BASIC calculators. It also stores just 1 program (2 if you have a memory cartridge) where the CASIOs can do 10. The cassette interface is hard to come by. Despite that I love it, it's faster than the CASIOs. Thanks for the video.

There is a nice Arduino-based project for providing program storage/retrieval capabilities to the TI-74 using micro SD cards.

The most reliable calculator/computer I had before buying a PC, i.e. from 1986 to about 1991 :)

Awesome Video Boss…..Great Work

Reviewed the video today: this is actually very well put video. Thank you very much for your work. Somehow this relaxes me a lot, between work/study sprints.

The display column can probably be easily fixed depending on how it's attached. If it's a zebra strip just give it a good cleaning; if it's a ribbon cable, clean the contacts; and if it's a soldered ribbon cable, you can use hot air or a hotbar soldering tip to gently heat it up to reflow the solder.

I think the only form of a successor is the Ti-92 with its pluggable rom modules. Kept the button layout similar. Otherwise a big leap.

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I bought the Ti-99 for 49,99 in -i guess- 1985. I wanted the video chip. In the end i used the whole computer through a TRS-80 mod I by taking over the data/address bus. Had fun with the sprites..

How do you adjust the contrast on the TI-74? I have the book , but couldn't find anything about that in there. Mine had the contrast too high. I''d like to lower it a bit.

Nice job, very helpful.

Hello, can you program functions (in Basic) on this calculator ? Well i see you have SUB, which is almost the same...

I once had the OEM-version of this (TI-74S) issued by an insurance co. with an application specific ROM for calculating premiums. Compared to the CC-40 (which I have), I found it pretty unengaging, among other reasons because it lacked the keywords printed on the original, and was therefore a pain to use. I soon sold the TI-74S, but still cherish the CC-40. The CC-40 also wins in the sexiness department. 😉

Mine has serial number 0001556 , that's low!