FAQ EN

It is a digital and exhibition museum dedicated to preserving, documenting, and sharing the history of electronics and automatic computing. While the primary focus is on preserving the historical heritage of Texas Instruments (LED/LCD watches, calculators, and TI-99/4A home computers), the collection also includes milestones from other historic brands that played an important role in the history of 20th-century technology.

The website and the museum collection are managed by the non-profit volunteer organization "Texas Instruments Watch Museum – ODV" (founded in 2023). The project is overseen by the founder, Fabrizio, together with a network of volunteers, enthusiasts, technicians, and collectors.

No. The Texas Instruments Watch Museum ODV is a completely independent non-profit cultural organization. The use of trademarks and trade names on the website is solely for descriptive, historical, and cultural preservation purposes, relating to the heritage of vintage technology.

In the 1970s, Texas Instruments was an absolute pioneer in the development of solid-state displays, first using light-emitting diodes (LED) and later liquid crystal displays (LCD). TI revolutionized the global market by launching some of the first affordable digital wristwatches for the general public and integrating proprietary modules that were extremely advanced for their time.