Object Details
- Texas Instruments
- Description
- This simple handheld electronic calculator has a black plastic case, metal keyboard with gold-colored trim, and rectangular plastic keys. The twenty keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a percent key, a change sign key, an off key and an on/clear entry/clear key. A mark behind the keyboard reads TI-1000. Behind this is an eight-digit LED display. A mark behind it reads: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS. The power jack is on the right side.
- The back of the calculator has a compartment for a nine-volt battery at the center. The cover for the compartment is marked on the inside: 2 (/) 1015633. A mark above the compartment reads: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (/) electronic calculator. Below the compartment is a space for a serial number but no serial number. A mark reads: LTA1978 (/) ASSEMBLED IN USA.
- The calculator comes in a cardboard box. A mark on it reads in part: 1977 Texas Instruments Incorporated. Another mark on the box reads in pen: Gift FROM MY SISTER (/) ON TRIP TO Dallas (/) 24 APRIL, 1981. (/) J B Priser. A sticker on one end of the box reads: GROCERY (/) 1069¢.
- Also in the box is an instruction leaflet entitled Texas Instrument TI-1000.
- Compare 1986.0988.051. According to the online Datamath Museum, TI-1000 calculators with silver-colored trim on the keyboard were made after those with gold-colored trim.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1978
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.052
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.052
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys material)
- metal (keyboard; circuitry material)
- paper (box; instructions material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 5 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 7.112 cm x 13.97 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334466
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-38c4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
