Rockwell 10R Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1974-1975
name: label: maker
content: Rockwell International
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a dark brown plastic case, a cream-colored keyboard, and sixteen rounded rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys and a decimal point key, it has a clear entry/clear key, and four arithmetic function keys. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit LED display. A mark behind the keyboard reads: Rockwell. A mark along the front edge reads:10R. The on/off switch is on the left side and the jack for a power adapter along the back edge.
label: Description
content: The back has a battery compartment at the top for a nine volt battery. A sticker below this gives operating examples. It also reads: Microelectronic Product Division (/) Rockwell International (/) Anaheim CA 92803 (Calculator Model 10R (/) Assembled in Mexico (/) U.S. and Foreign Parts. Further text reads: Ser. (/) No. 184631.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a plastic carrying case marked on the front: Rockwell.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.014 (the Rockwell 12R).
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, November 7, 1974, p. D16. Rockwell 10R advertised as selling for $29.95.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, May 30, 1975, p. A13. Rockwell 10R advertised as on sale for $18.00. Others charge $25.00.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
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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: 1986.0988.239
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.239
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (keyboard; trim; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; back of case; display cover; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 in x 5 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.62 cm x 13.6525 cm