National Semiconductor Whiz Kid Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: National Semiconductor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case with fifteen plastic keys, thirteen of them square and two rectangular. It has ten digit keys, a clear key, and four keys for arithmetic functions. Behind the keyboard are a switch marked “DECIMAL” and an on/off switch. A mark between the switches reads: WhizKid. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit display.
label: Description
content: At the top of the back is a compartment for a nine-volt battery. A paper sticker below this reads in part: NS (/) ELECTRONICS 600 CALCULATOR Made in U.S.A. It also reads in part: 678010 (/) SERIAL NUMBER. It also reads in part: NS ELECTRONICS (/) A Division of (/) National Semiconductor Corp. (/) 2900 Semiconductor Drive, (/) Santa Clara, California 95051.
label: Description
content: According to an article in the <Chicago Tribune</I>, the Whiz Kid is a four-function calculator introduced by the NS Electronics Division of National Semiconductor Corporation at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Chicago in June 1975.
label: Description
content: Compare examples of the National Semiconductor 600, 1986.0988.064, 1986.0988.275, and 1986.0988.307.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: “Calculators Go to Grade School,” <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, June 7, 1975, p. N A7.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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: 1986.0988.307
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.307
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm x 12.7 cm