Object Details
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Description
- This handheld programmable scientific calculator has an array of thirty-nine plastic keys. Most of these can take on three different meanings. One is indicated in white atop the key, one in orange on the keyboard behind the key, and one in blue on the sloping front of the key. In addition to representing digits, arithmetic functions, trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, square roots, powers, logarithms, natural logarithms and the number pi, keys can be used to compute various statistical functions. Additional keys are used in setting up programming routines.
- The LCD display behind the keyboard exhibited results in common form or in scientific notation.
- A mark on the front of the calculator reads: hp (/) 11C. A mark at the bottom of the front reads: HEWLETT-PACKARD. A paper tag taped to the back of the calculator gives an elaborate trigonometric formula. A compartment on the top left holds three silver-colored batteries.
- According to Mier-Jedrezejowicz, the HP-11C was introduced in 1981 and discontinued in 1989. This example has a serial number on the back of 2534A49130. This indicates that the calculator was made in the thirty-fourth week of 1985 (25 years after 1960) in the United States (A).
- The calculator has a black plastic sleeve. A mark on it reads: hp.
- This example of the calculator was owned by Tom Simkin, Curator of Volcanology in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
- References:
- Accession file.
- W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, A Guide to HP Handheld Calculators and Computers , Tustin, California: Wilson/Burnett Publishing, 1997, pp. 70–71, 133.
- David G. Hicks, The Museum of HP Calculators, http://www.hpmuseum.org/, accessed July, 2014.
- Accession file.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sharon Simkin
- 1985
- ID Number
- 2014.0260.01
- catalog number
- 2014.0260.01
- accession number
- 2014.0260
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys; envelope material)
- metal (trim; keyboard material)
- paper (tag material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.9 cm x 13.5 cm x 9 cm; 3/4 in x 5 5/16 in x 3 17/32 in
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1692041
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-f4fc-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
