Radio Shack EC-300 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1974
name: label: maker
content: Tandy Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This relatively early handheld electronic calculator has a brown and tan plastic case and twenty-four square plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a D key for refreshing the display, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a % key, a clear entry/clear key, and a negative entry key. The top row of the keyboard has four memory keys. Behind the keys on the right is an on/off switch. Behind this is an eight-digit LED display. A mark above the display reads: Radio Shack. The back edge has a cord for charging.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a sticker with “abbreviated instructions.” Text at the bottom of this reads: RADIO SHACK A TANDY CORPORATION COMPANY (/) FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76107 (/) RADIO SHAK MODEL EC-300 (/) SERIAL NO. A2 300-20590.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a black plastic zippered carrying case with a cloth cord.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.035.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Radio Shack, A Tandy Company, <i>1974 Electronics Catalog </i>, p. 66, accessed September 22, 2014, at radioshackcatalogs.com. Calculator has a list price of $114.95.
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: 1986.0988.037
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.037
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; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 7.9375 cm x 14.605 cm