National Semiconductor 99 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1978-1979
name: label: maker
content: National Semiconductor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This compact handheld electronic calculator has a brown plastic case, a metal keyboard and display trim, and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a change sign key, a total key, a clear entry/clear key, an off key, and four memory keys, it has a square root key and a % key. Text above the keyboard reads: NSC National Semiconductor 99. Behind this are three brightly colored circles. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a compartment for two small batteries. A sticker next to it reads: NSC National Semiconductor (/) WEST JORDAN, (/) UTAH 84084 (/) MODEL 99 (/) MADE IN HONG KONG.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, December 7, 1978, p. OC_A8. Calculator sells for $9.99.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, April 9, 1979, p. D10. Calculator listed as giveway of a bank to depositors of $5000 or more, $8.95 to depositors of $100-$1000.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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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: 1986.0988.234
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.234
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case; keys; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/16 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 5/8 in; .4826 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.7475 cm