I have a Texas Instruments TI-89 Graphing Calculator which has a Motorola
68k processor, however I don't think this is what you meant. The IC's in
basic calculators would be custom made for that particular purpose and
nothing else.

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Darren Logan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone got any ideas as to which type of processors are used in calculators ?
>
> It makes me laugh because you can buy a calcultor with immense math power for
> the price of a single PIC.. and yet a PIC is pretty poor in terms of it's
> maths capability. Where's the logic in that ? (pardon the pun).
>
> Cheers,
> Darren
>