Rockwell 14RD Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1976
name: label: maker
content: Rockwell International
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a dark brown plastic case and eighteen square plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys and a decimal point key, it has a clear entry/clear key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, and a percentage key. A mark above the keyboard reads: 14RD (/) Automatic (/) Percent. Above it is the on/off switch. Behind it is the eight-digit vacuum fluorescent display. A light at the back goes on when the result is negative. Text below it reads: MINUS. Text left of it reads: Rockwell. A jack along the back edge would hold a power adapter.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has four feet and a compartment at the base for 4 AA batteries. A sticker above the compartment reads in part: Rockwell (/) International. It also reads: Microelectronics Product Division (/) Anaheim, CA 92803 (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) MODEL 14RD. After instructions, it reads: Made in Japan. It also reads: Serial No. (/) 100108.046.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, May 19, 1976, p. E8. Rockwell 14RD advertised as selling for $11.88. Least expensive of Rockwell calculators advertised.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, December 18, 1976, p. C10. Rockwell 14RD advertised as selling for $12.25.
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: 1986.0988.013
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.013
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 in x 6 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm