Texas Instruments SR-52 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1975
name: label: maker
content: Texas Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld programmable scientific electronic calculator has a black plastic case and forty-five small rectangular plastic keys arranged in nine rows. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, and a change sign key (all light gray), the calculator has a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a clear key, a clear entry key, and a "2nd" key (all gold). The remaining keys are brown. Pushing the “2nd” key allows the keys to serve a “dual function,” which is given in text above the keys.
label: Description
content: The space for programming cards is just above the keyboard. A mark behind this reads: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SR-52. Behind it are an R/D (radians/degrees) switch and an on/off switch. Behind this is an LED display that shows ten positive or negative digits of the result as well as powers of ten from -99 to +99.
label: Description
content: The power supply plugs into the calculator along the back edge. A mark on it reads: MODEL AC 9130A.
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content: A sticker on the back of the calculator reads in part: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS (/) SR-52 (/) Serial No. (/) SR-52 011415. It also reads in part: ASSEMBLED IN USA. Below the sticker is a compartment that holds three batteries. A sticker for it reads in part: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS BATTERY PACK BP-1. Removing the battery pack reveals two chips. The larger has text that reads: TMC0501NL (/) EΔ7537. The small one has the mark: TMC 0595 NL (/) BA7539. A mark on the back of the calculator near the bottom reads: 4675DTA.
label: Description
content: Also included with the object is a black plastic folder that holds twenty-six magnetic cards with programs on them, a tablet of preprinted forms for writing programs, and two small spiral-bound notebooks of documentation. One is the <I>Owner's Manual</I>, the other is the <I>Operating Guide</I>. These documents are copyrighted 1975.
label: Description
content: Compare 1987.0435.01 and 1987.0487.297.
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content: Ball & Flamm give a 1976 price of $229.
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content: Reference:
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content: Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, <I>The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators</I>, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 154.
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 Uta C. Merzbach
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.3093.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2010.3093
label: catalog number
content: 2010.3093.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; power supply case; program case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry; screws material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (manuals; box; program sheets material)
label: Measurements
content: calculator: 4.5 cm x 8 cm x 26 cm; 1 25/32 in x 3 5/32 in x 10 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 2 3/4 in x 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in