Sony Model ICC-2500 Sobax Desktop Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1969
name: label: maker
content: Sony Corporation of America
notes: label: Description
content: In 1967 Sony Corporation of Japan began to sell commercial electronic calculators under the name SOBAX, or solid state abacus. This is a later Sony “integrated circuit calculator,” the SOBAX ICC-2500, released in the United States in 1969. The calculator carried out routine arithmetic operations and took square roots automatically. Using various memory keys, it could be programmed to perform routine numerical calculations with diverse constants. There are 15 places in the register.
label: Description
content: A mark on the right front of the machine reads: SOBAX (/) 2500. A mark on the front left reads: SONY. A mark behind the keyboard reads: SOLID STATE ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. A mark on the back reads in part: SERIAL NO. 602827.
label: Description
content: Compare CI*334388 and CI*334389.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Sony Corporation of America, <I>SOBAX Solid State Calculator ICC-2500W Owner’s Instruction Manual</I>, Long Island City, N.Y., no date. This is CI*313786.15.
label: Description
content: Sony Corporation of America, [Press Releases], October 22, 1969. These are CI*313986.11 and CI*313986.12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Desktop Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sony Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.334390
label: accession number
content: 313986
label: catalog number
content: 334390
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 11 in x 15 3/4 in; 14.605 cm x 27.94 cm x 40.005 cm