Texas Instruments TI-1000 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Texas Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: This simple handheld electronic calculator has a black plastic case, metal keyboard with gold-colored trim, and rectangular plastic keys. The twenty keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a percent key, a change sign key, an off key and an on/clear entry/clear key. A mark behind the keyboard reads TI-1000. Behind this is an eight-digit LED display. A mark behind it reads: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS. The power jack is on the right side.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a compartment for a nine-volt battery at the center. The cover for the compartment is marked on the inside: 2 (/) 1015633. A mark above the compartment reads: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (/) electronic calculator. Below the compartment is a space for a serial number but no serial number. A mark reads: LTA1978 (/) ASSEMBLED IN USA.
label: Description
content: The calculator comes in a cardboard box. A mark on it reads in part: 1977 Texas Instruments Incorporated. Another mark on the box reads in pen: Gift FROM MY SISTER (/) ON TRIP TO Dallas (/) 24 APRIL, 1981. (/) J B Priser. A sticker on one end of the box reads: GROCERY (/) 1069¢.
label: Description
content: Also in the box is an instruction leaflet entitled <I>Texas Instrument TI-1000</I>.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.051. According to the online Datamath Museum, TI-1000 calculators with silver-colored trim on the keyboard were made after those with gold-colored trim.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1986.0988.052
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.052
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 material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (keyboard; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (box; instructions material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 5 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 7.112 cm x 13.97 cm