Sperry Remington 663 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: maker
content: Remington Rand Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has an aluminum and black plastic case and eighteen rounded rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a shift key (for seeing more of the answer) and a clear key. To the left of the top two keys is a switch for setting a constant. Behind the keyboard is a six-digit blue fluorescent display that could display twelve digits in two views. The on/off switch is on the left side and a power jack is along the back edge. A mark above the display reads: SPERRY REMINGTON 663.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a compartment for four AA batteries at the base. A sticker on the inside of the lid of the compartment reads: 2125680. A sticker on the inside of the compartment reads: 1021387. A sticker on the back of the calculator reads: SPERRY REMINGTON (/) MOD. 663 (/) BATTERY SUPPLY 1.5Vx4 (/) OR USE AC ADAPTOR AD-4145 (/) 0.6 W MADE IN JAPAN.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a black plastic zippered case. Text on the front reads: SPERRY REMINGTON.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, March 7, 1974, p. A12. “The superb new Remington calculator” offered for $39.88.
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content: According to the website of Casio Corporation, this was the Casio CM-603. However, that is quite a different calculator.
label: Description
content: Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, <I>The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators</I>, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 146.
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: 1986.0988.300
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.300
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (part of case; keys; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (part of case; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (display material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 6 in; 3.175 cm x 8.255 cm x 15.24 cm