Object Details
- National Semiconductor Corporation
- Description
- This compact handheld electronic calculator has a brown plastic case, a metal keyboard and display trim, and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a change sign key, a total key, a clear entry/clear key, an off key, and four memory keys, it has a square root key and a % key. Text above the keyboard reads: NSC National Semiconductor 99. Behind this are three brightly colored circles. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display.
- The back of the calculator has a compartment for two small batteries. A sticker next to it reads: NSC National Semiconductor (/) WEST JORDAN, (/) UTAH 84084 (/) MODEL 99 (/) MADE IN HONG KONG.
- References:
- [Advertisement], Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1978, p. OC_A8. Calculator sells for $9.99.
- [Advertisement], Washington Post, April 9, 1979, p. D10. Calculator listed as giveway of a bank to depositors of $5000 or more, $8.95 to depositors of $100-$1000.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1978-1979
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.234
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.234
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- metal (case; keys; circuitry material)
- paper (sticker material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/16 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 5/8 in; .4826 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.7475 cm
- place made
- China: Hong Kong
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1305764
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-eff1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
