Summit SE 88M Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1973-1974
name: label: maker
content: Summit International Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This is one of Summit’s scientific handheld electronic calculators, advertised in the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> in September 1973 as an “electronic slide rule with memory.” It has a tan plastic case with metal trim and twenty rectangular plastic keys. These keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a memory key, a % key, a clear key and a clear entry key. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display. The on/off switch is right of this. The back edge of the calculator has a power jack as well as buttons for reciprocals, squares, and square roots. A mark on the front edge reads: Summit.
label: Description
content: A sticker on the back of the calculator gives operating instructions. It reads toward the bottom: SUMMIT INTERNATIONAL CORP. (/) Serial No. EF 16427 Model SE 88M (/) Salt Lake City, Utah (/) MANUFACTURED BY NCE NUCLEAR (/) made in U.S.A.
label: Description
content: The <I>SE 88M Instruction Manual</I> accompanies the calculator.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.284 and 1986.0988.279, two examples of the Summit SRM.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, September 11, 1973, p. C5. Calculator described (although model number not given) as having a list price of $129.95 and a sale price of $109.88.
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content: John Donnex, “Student Government rents calculators today,” <I>Technician</I>, 54, no. 5, September 7, 1973, p. 1. North Carolina State University is leasing 200 Summit SE 88m calculators for students to rent for $1 a day, $5 a week or $15 a month.
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: 1986.0988.278
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.278
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; trim material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (stickers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 in; 3.175 cm x 6.985 cm x 10.16 cm