Object Details
- Tandy Corporation
- Description
- This small, thin, flat handheld electronic calculator has a metal and plastic case and an array of twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. The ten digit keys and decimal point key are white. The on/off key and the clear/clear entry keys are red. The total key, four arithmetic function keys, four memory keys, change sign key, % key, and square root key are brown.
- A mark below the keyboard (partly effaced) reads: Radio Shack (/) statesman. . . .
- The back of the calculator has a space at the bottom for two squat cylindrical batteries. A sticker in the middle of the back reads: Radio Shack (/) Cat. No. 65-670 (/) Model: EC-263 (/) DC: 3V (76, S76 or Equivalent x 2) (/) Custom Mfd. in Hong Kong for (/) Radio Shack, A Division of Tandy Corporation.
- Reference:
- Radio Shack, A Tandy Company, 1980 Catalog No. 315, p. 167, accessed September 22, 2014, at radioshackcatalogs.com. The price listed for the calculator is $16.95.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1980
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.223
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.223
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (trim; keys; back of case material)
- metal (front of case; circuitry material)
- paper (sticker material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 6.0325 cm x 10.795 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_1305753
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-1a5c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
