Unisonic 796 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: Unisonic
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic scientific calculator has a metal and plastic case and an array of thirty-five rectangular plastic keys. The ten digit keys and decimal point key are white. The keys for total, four arithmetic functions, three trigonometric functions, three inverse trigonometric functions, natural logarithms, exponents, clear, pi, square roots, inverses, and exchange are colored turquoise. The enter exponent, CHN, and four memory keys are orange. A mark behind the keyboard reads: Unisonic 796. The radian/degree and on/off switches are to the right of this. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit green vacuum fluorescent display. This display also could show a five-digit mantissa and two-digit exponent (with signs for both).
label: Description
content: A power jack is on the top edge.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a sticker giving calculation examples. It reads in part: 796-A. It also reads in part: SERIAL NO. (/) 002305 (/) MADE IN JAPAN. Below this is a compartment for four AA batteries.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.115 (Unisonic 799).
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content: Reference:
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content: <I>Unisonic 896 8 Digit Electronic Slide Rule Calculator Instruction Manual</I>, available from wass.net. Accessed June 30, 2015. The manual is for the 796-B, but the diagrams appear very similar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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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: 1986.0988.116
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; circuit board material)
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content: glass (display material)
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content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 6 in; 3.175 cm x 8.89 cm x 15.24 cm