Texas instruments modules and "cards"

[huemanIT]

I found a bunch of texas instruments modules and cards that go into the calculators with programs on them it seems. They are aviation and navigation and business and master library and I am curious as to weather or not anyone collects these or knows anything about them I am interested to learn more about them and cant find any info anywhere. They have their cases and are like these little booklets with a bunch of cards and a booklet in each and there were also a few calculators that seem not so hard to find a TI programmable 59 and a BA 55.

Also there are some modules that come in the booklets.

Thanks

Hueman.I.T

[per]

The modules redefines some of the keys with new functions. As an example, If you want your calculator with special atimetric functions, you could replace the standard libary module with Atimetric module.

[Ksarul]

The modules are most likely for the TI-59 you found them with, as those libraries were all made for the 59. I know of one or two people who collect TI 59 stuff, myself included. Most of the software produced for it came from TI, though there were a number of interesting ones made by third parties as well--I've seen some for insurance salesmen and also for geologic surveys that came from sources other than TI.

[per]

I know of one or two people who collect TI 59 stuff, myself included.

I'm not too much of a collecter, but my dad got one of those calculators and a scientiffic module. (I'm gonna make a new battery pack for it). I find stuff like this Interesting.

[Terry Yager]

IIRC, the modules will also work in a TI 58, but not the mag strips (or is it the other way around?).

--T

[per]

I got my dad's calculator working (he sure is happy:D), and I have now figured how modules really works. They don't reonfigure the keyboard at all, that's for sure.

A module is simply a library of permanent-stored programs that can be run, and the programs are described in the booklet following the module.

[Ksarul]

Great! Another working TI 59 is a good thing. . .

[per]

Okay. I have read in some of the manuals about modules. Here is a better explanation.

A module comes in a booklet. This booklet contains the module, a quick referance manual, and a set of labbles. There should also be a users guide manual.

The manuals contains description on how to use the module and the labbles.

A labbel might look like a magnet card, but it is not. It doesn't contain any data, and can't be written to. Magnetic cards are yellow, labbles are black.

BTW, I have also looked at the programing language of the calculator. It seems to be something inbetween Assembler and Token programming. It is assembly in the way that there is no interepter or a lower programming language, However, it is token-based in the way that the language is just a recall of calculator keystrokes with labbles and some registers (feels kindof like an old version of TI-BASIC used on todays TI graphing calculators like the TI-83).