Unisonic CB-14 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1977
name: label: maker
content: Unisonic
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a metal case with plastic trim and twenty-three rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, and four memory keys. In addition, the calculator has orange clear and clear entry keys as well as keys for exchange, change sign, square root, squares, and inverses. A mark above the keyboard reads: Unisonic CB-14. Behind this is a nine-digit vacuum fluorescent display.
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content: The jack for a power adapter is on the bottom edge.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has two clips at the top for attaching it to a leatherette case. It also has a sticker with calculation examples. This reads in part: CB-14. It also reads: SERIAL NO. (/) 179247 (/) MADE IN TAIWAN. At the base is a compartment for three AAA batteries.
label: Description
content: The case not only holds the calculator but has space for six credit cards and a pen (this example has no pen).
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content: Reference:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>The Bakersfield Californian [from Bakersfield, California]</I>, January 13, 1977, p. 57. A local bank sells the Unisonic CB-14 to its customers for $17.95 plus sales tax.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Taiwan
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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: 1986.0988.289
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.289
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; case; carrying case material)
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content: metal (case material)
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content: glass (display material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 6.985 cm x 13.97 cm