Dataman was an educational toy calculator with mathematical games to aid in learning arithmetic. It had an 8-digit vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), and a keypad. Dataman was manufactured by Texas Instruments and was launched on 5 June 1977.
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DataMan was designed to resemble a robot. It had an array of 24 keys of differing shape, including ten digit keys, four arithmetic function keys, an equals key, a memory bank key, an on key, an off-key, and keys for various games. The following games, played against the clock, were designed to teach the four basic operations of arithmetic—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division: ==References==