Hewlett-Packard HP 48SX Scientific Expandable Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1990
name: label: maker
content: Hewlett-Packard Company
notes: label: Description
content: This alphanumeric programmable graphing handheld calculator has a dark brown plastic case and an array of forty-nine rectangular plastic keys. Three of the keys are shift keys that determine the effect pressing other keys. The calculator is capable of solving and plotting a wide array of problems from arithmetic, trigonometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus. The screen is behind the keyboard. A mark behind that reads: hp HEWLETT (/) PACKARD (/) 48SX SCIENTIFIC EXPANDABLE.
label: Description
content: An empty compartment that can hold two expansion cards is at the top of the back. Three corroding AAA batteries were removed from a compartment at the bottom and discarded. A mark above this compartment reads: MADE IN USA 3032A01521 (/) HEWLETT PACKARD 1989. The first four digits of the serial number indicate it was made in the thirty-second week of 1990. The calculator has four rubber feet.
label: Description
content: The object was received with a zippered case and a spiral-bound instruction manual <I>HP 48SX Scientific Expandable Owner’s Manual Volume 1</I>. This example is Edition 3, published in May of 1990.
label: Description
content: The calculator was used by a faculty member at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, <I>A Guide to HP Handheld Calculators and Computers </I>, Tustin, California: Wilson/Burnett Publishing, 1997, pp. 98–99, 133.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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 Mark E. Kidwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0168.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0168.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (keyboard; circuitry; manual binding material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (manual material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 15.2 cm x 21.5 cm; 2 3/8 in x 5 31/32 in x 8 15/32 in
label: Measurements
content: calculator in carrying case: 2.8 cm x 10.3 cm x 18.8 cm; 1 3/32 in x 4 1/16 in x 7 13/32 in
label: Measurements
content: manual: 3 cm x 15.2 cm x 21.5 cm; 1 3/16 in x 5 31/32 in x 8 15/32 in