Texas Calculator TI-1795 SV

This is a nice little battery/solar powered calculator. The buttons are large enough for the clubs I call fingers. It has enough functions for what I needed it for and then some.

Does as it is supposed to!

I love how easy this calculator works and is very accurate

This review is for the SECOND version of this calculator, the slightly-larger, grey, BLACK and white model, with a rounded “mound” housing the keypad. I had actually ordered the older model — the light-grey model, with the blue and white keys, slightly smaller, which I had had previously, but sadly lost. I had considered returning this newer model, but finally decided against it, as it is now listed as being discontinued by the manufacturer, so — if I returned the newer one I did get, I very well might have gotten the same model back……….

I was, at first, extremely disappointed in the newer model. (Why both the newer model and the older model — which look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT — have the VERY SAME MODEL NUMBER is completely beyond me. I mean, people who work at Texas Instruments are supposed to be very intelligent and know what they are doing….but why they decided to give to truly different calculators the same model number is something I don’t think I’ll ever understand. I mean…what kind of “genuis” makes this very simple mistake? (one who wants to fool online and catalogue buyers, who have to trust that the packers will pack the right model, perhaps>)

That said, this NEWER model — though larger and more-than-slightly bulkier than the older one — does have a few advantages….I think.
I don’t remember the older model having a “tax+” or “tax-” or “rate” key, nor do I remember it having a battery backup, as the newer model does.
This newer model has a nice little compartment for the battery, which need only be opened with a single screw. So, the entire back of the calculator need not be taken off — with the slight dangers, therein, of getting dust into the machine, or disturbing the delicate circuitry, in the half a minute or so, that it takes to change the battery. With a neat little separate oompartment for the battery changing, the rest of the back of the machine need not be disturbed at all!

This is all the more important, as more and more calculators, sadly, are made with “no user-replaceable batteries” enclosed, (no — one is instructed, in these other, still newer calculators, to take them to the nearest authorized repair shop, of the designated manufacturer — and have them replaced there, like wrist-watch batteries! First wrist-watches, now calculators! Talk about planned obsolence! (Buy even this newer model 1795SV, and keep it close!)

Although the newer model 1795sv has a “wrap-around, windshield” numberical display, (instead of what is to me, the far more esthetically pleasing and clearer, “picture-frame” numberical display, found in the older model 1795sv), the numbers still are well-spaced and clear to view. It also has the nice, l a r g e numberic display, which is not only on this newer model 1795SV, but also on the older model 1795SV…..and also on the belated, dearly loved, and sadly lost original Texas Instrument “1795” model, (no “sv”), which I once had, and enjoyed more than both of the “1795sv” models put together! (It was small, handy, and a beautiful medium-bone-yellow in colour. It also seemed to stay on FOREVER — pr at least an hour or so, if I remember correctly. Oh, that Texas Instruments would bring THAT model back, sigh!)

Well, this NEW m0del 1795SV — though NOT the older, handier model 1795SV, nor the original model 1795 — still has many good points, most of which are delineated above. It is also a desk-top model which can be carried in a pocket-book, if necessary — and also in a briefcase, but not in a wallet. It is bigger than the two previous models in the Texas Instrument 1795 line…but does have that priceless customer-replacable battery chamber. Although I do prefer the previous two models, this newer one, now available, is not a bad little calculator, all things considered.

But I would still welcome, (greatly!), the return of the original 1795 model, and/or the original 1795sv.

This is the second one I have bought wore the last one out lasted about 10 years happy to be able to get it again

Good product for the price.

O produto é celenterados e o vendedor foi extremamente atencioso e correto, pois pagou a taxa de importação.
Muito grata pela atenção.