Summit SL-8M Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: maker
content: Summit International Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a tan and brown plastic case with twenty-one rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, two memory keys, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a % key, a clear entry key, and a clear key. The 9 key also can be used to set the calculator in “add-mode” for entering numbers with two decimal digits. The on/off switch is on the left side. A tag next to the topmost key reads: SL-8M. A tag along the front edge reads: Summit. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a silver-colored tag that reads in part: Tm SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (/) SERIAL NO. 29422 (/) MODEL SL-8M (/) MADE IN U.S.A. A tag below this seals the battery door. It reads in part: DO NOT REMOVE (/) BATTERY DOOR. Below this is a battery compartment for two N or ½ AA batteries. At the top of the back is a jack for a power supply.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a sheet of instructions entitled: SL8M. The instrument fits in a brown leather, cloth-lined zippered case that is marked: Summit.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Salt Lake City Tribune</I>, April 22, 1976, p. 38. Inventory clearance has offer of Summit SL-8M for $12.88.
label: Description
content: Summit International Corporation, <I>Instruction Manual for SL8M Miniature Electronic Calculator</I>, Salt Lake City: Summit. An electronic version of this manual is available at wass.net.
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: 1986.0988.296
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.296
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry; pouch zipper material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (stickers; instructions material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (pouch material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 6.6675 cm x 12.065 cm