Object Details
- Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case and twenty rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a square root key, a percentage key, a pi key, and a clear/clear entry key. Above the keyboard is an on/off switch. Behind it is an eight-digit blue vacuum fluorescent display. Text above the display reads: TOSHIBA BC-8018. Text below the keys reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR.
- A battery compartment for two AA batteries is at the top of the back. A sticker below it reads in part: TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) BC-8018 (/) DC 3V (dry battery x 2) (/) DC 3V (AC adapter) 0.3W (/) NO. 175304 BM (/) TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO., LTD. JAPAN (/) USE MODEL BH-115, BH-116. A jack for a power adapter is along the back edge.
- References:
- According to the datamath.org website (accessed December 3, 2014), this calculator was introduced in 1977.
- According to the mycalcdb.free.fr website and the www.calcuseum.com website (both accessed December 3, 2014), this calculator was in production in 1978.
- [Advertisement], Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1978, p. B30. Calculator on sale for $9.99.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1978
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.126
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.126
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- metal (keyboard material)
- plastic (case; keys material)
- paper (sticker material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 3 in x 5 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 7.62 cm x 13.97 cm
- place made
- Japan
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334540
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-7896-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
