Summit SQR16M Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1973-1974
name: label: maker
content: Summit International Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a white plastic case with twenty square plastic keys with depressions (of the Klixon type). The keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a memory key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a square root key, a clear key, and a clear entry key. The memory key may serve for storage or accumulation. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display. The on/off switch is right of it. A power jack is on the back edge. A tag on the front reads: Summit.
label: Description
content: A tag on the back of the calculator gives operating instructions. It reads in part: SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) Serial No. 1716 SQR 16M (/) Salt Lake City, Utah Manufactured by NCE NUCLEAR (/) made in U.S.A.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, June 21, 1973, p. N_A13. This calculator advertised as selling regularly for $199.95, on sale for $129.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, September 11, 1973, p. C5. The calculator is given as having a list price of $129.95 and a sale price of $99.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, February 7, 1974, p. A2. Calculator is advertised as having a list price of $129.95 and a sale price of $75.88.
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: 1986.0988.280
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.280
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (stickers material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry; trim material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 in; 3.175 cm x 6.985 cm x 10.16 cm