Object Details
- Summit International Corporation
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a white plastic case with twenty square plastic keys with depressions (of the Klixon type). The keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a memory key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a square root 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. 1716 SQR 16M (/) Salt Lake City, Utah Manufactured by NCE NUCLEAR (/) made in U.S.A.
- References:
- [Advertisement], Chicago Tribune, June 21, 1973, p. N_A13. This calculator advertised as selling regularly for $199.95, on sale for $129.88.
- [Advertisement], Chicago Tribune, September 11, 1973, p. C5. The calculator is given as having a list price of $129.95 and a sale price of $99.88.
- [Advertisement], Chicago Tribune, February 7, 1974, p. A2. Calculator is advertised as having a list price of $129.95 and a sale price of $75.88.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1973-1974
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.280
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.280
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys material)
- paper (stickers material)
- metal (circuitry; trim material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 in; 3.175 cm x 6.985 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_1360985
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-7937-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
