Toshiba BC-8018 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
name: label: maker
content: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case and twenty rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a square root key, a percentage key, a pi key, and a clear/clear entry key. Above the keyboard is an on/off switch. Behind it is an eight-digit blue vacuum fluorescent display. Text above the display reads: TOSHIBA BC-8018. Text below the keys reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR.
label: Description
content: A battery compartment for two AA batteries is at the top of the back. A sticker below it reads in part: TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) BC-8018 (/) DC 3V (dry battery x 2) (/) DC 3V (AC adapter) 0.3W (/) NO. 175304 BM (/) TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO., LTD. JAPAN (/) USE MODEL BH-115, BH-116. A jack for a power adapter is along the back edge.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: According to the datamath.org website (accessed December 3, 2014), this calculator was introduced in 1977.
label: Description
content: According to the mycalcdb.free.fr website and the www.calcuseum.com website (both accessed December 3, 2014), this calculator was in production in 1978.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, September 7, 1978, p. B30. Calculator on sale for $9.99.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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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: 1986.0988.126
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.126
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (keyboard material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 in x 5 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 7.62 cm x 13.97 cm