Object Details
- Summit International Corporation
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a black plastic case with twenty rectangular plastic keys. The keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a % key, a clear key, and a clear entry key. The memory key may serve for storage or accumulation. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display. The on/off switch is right of it. A power jack is on the back edge. A tag on the front reads: Summit.
- A tag on the back of the calculator gives operating instructions. It reads in part: SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) Serial No. M13014 Model K08M (/) Salt Lake City, Utah MANUFACTURED BY NCE NUCLEAR (/) made in U.S.A.
- Compare to 1986.0988.282 and 1986.0988.287.
- Reference:
- [Advertisement], Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, July 9, 1973, p. 6. Advertised as selling for $115.
- [Advertisement], Salt Lake City Tribune, November 10, 1977, p. 17. Offered in closeout sale for $1.88.
- Guy Ball, “Summit a Man and the Idea,” International Calculator Collector. A version of this article is online, accessed November 19, 2014.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1973
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.072
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.072
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- paper (stickers material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 in; 3.175 cm x 6.35 cm x 10.16 cm
- place made
- United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334486
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-7938-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
