Rockwell 18R Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1975-1977
name: label: maker
content: Rockwell International
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a dark brown and light tan plastic case and twenty rounded rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys and a decimal point key, it has a clear entry/clear key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a percentage key, and two memory keys. A mark above the keyboard reads: MEMORY. The on/off switch is on the left side. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit LED display. Text left behind the display reads: Rockwell. A mark scratched above this reads: WO305406. A jack along the back edge would hold a power adapter.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has four feet and a compartment at the top for a nine volt battery. A sticker below this gives operating examples. Text near the bottom reads: Rockwell (/) International Microelectronics Product Division (/) Anaheim, CA 92803. Further text reads: Calculator Model 18R (/) Assembled in Mexico (/) U.S. and Foreign Parts. Further text reads: Ser [sic] (/) No. 144265.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a plastic carrying case marked on the front: Rockwell.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, December 4, 1975, p. A6. Rockwell 18R advertised as selling for $19.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, February 15, 1976, p. A12. Rockwell 18R advertised as selling for $13.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, February 11, 1977, p. C24. Rockwell 18R advertised as selling for $9.77.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
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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: 1986.0988.240
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.240
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; carrying case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 in x 6 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm