Summit MB-8 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1972-1973
name: label: maker
content: Summit International Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This American handheld electronic calculator has an off-white plastic case and an array of seventeen indented plastic keys (the Texas Instruments Klixon type, but smaller), most of them square. The zero key and the decimal point key are rectangular. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key and four arithmetic function keys, the calculator has a clear entry key and a clear key. A sticker left of the top two keys reads: Summit. Behind the keys is an eight-digit red LED display. On the left side are an on/off switch and a constant switch.
label: Description
content: A jack for a power adapter is on the front side.
label: Description
content: A sticker on the back reads in part: SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) Salt Lake City, Utah (/) SEE MANUAL FOR OPERATION (/) Serial No. 115981 (/) Model No. MB-8 (/) Made in U.S.A. Below the sticker is a compartment for a nine-volt battery.
label: Description
content: No advertisements found.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.070.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Handheld Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John B. Priser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0988.283
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.283
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (stickers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 10.16 cm