Object Details
- Description
- This inexpensive handheld electronic calculator has a gray plastic case and twenty rectangular plastic keys. This includes ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a % key, two memory keys, and a clear entry/clear key. Above is an on/off switch and behind this an eight-digit LED display. A mark behind it reads: Radio Shack. A jack for a power adapter is on the right side.
- The back of the calculator has a compartment for a nine volt battery. A sticker below this reads:
- CAT. NO 65-611 (/) MODEL EC-241 (/) Radio Shack (/) A DIVISION OF TANDY CORPORATION (/) DC 9V (/) FOR 120V AC OPERATION (/) USE AC ADAPTER 65-731 (/) SERIAL No. 124917. It also reads: 8A6 (/) MADE IN TAIWAN.
- Reference:
- Radio Shack, A Tandy Company, 1977 Catalog No. 276 , p. 152, accessed September 22, 2014, at radioshackcatalogs.com. The price listed is $4.95.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Tandy Corporation
- date made
- 1977
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm x 13.335 cm
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
