Summit K08M Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1973
name: label: maker
content: Summit International Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a black plastic case with twenty rectangular plastic keys. The keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a % key, a clear key, and a clear entry key. The memory key may serve for storage or accumulation. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display. The on/off switch is right of it. A power jack is on the back edge. A tag on the front reads: Summit.
label: Description
content: A tag on the back of the calculator gives operating instructions. It reads in part: SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) Serial No. M13014 Model K08M (/) Salt Lake City, Utah MANUFACTURED BY NCE NUCLEAR (/) made in U.S.A.
label: Description
content: Compare to 1986.0988.282 and 1986.0988.287.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner</I>, July 9, 1973, p. 6. Advertised as selling for $115.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Salt Lake City Tribune</I>, November 10, 1977, p. 17. Offered in closeout sale for $1.88.
label: Description
content: Guy Ball, “Summit a Man and the Idea,” <I>International Calculator Collector</I>. A version of this article is online, accessed November 19, 2014.
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: 1986.0988.072
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.072
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 (stickers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 in; 3.175 cm x 6.35 cm x 10.16 cm