Radio Shack EC-21 Handheld Electronic Calculator, Blackjack
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Tandy Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This device operates both as a four-function handheld electronic calculator and as an electronic game of blackjack. It has a metal case with plastic trim, fifteen rectangular plastic keys, and a ten-digit green fluorescent display. Cards “dealt” to the player are indicated on the right of the display, those to the “dealer” on the left. Only one player other than the dealer is allowed. Text at the base of the keyboard reads: Radio Shack EC-21. A jack for a power adapter is along the front edge.
label: Description
content: A compartment at the base of the back holds three AAA batteries. A paper sticker inside this compartment reads: NO: 58018 (/) 7A8 Text on the back of the calculator reads in part: BLACKJACK 21 (/) Cat. No. 60-3011/ It also reads in part: MADE IN TAIWAN.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.295 (the Unisonic 21-P1) and 1986.0988.048 (the Radio Shack EC-21).
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, December 17, 1978, p. A3. Model EC-21 on sale for $21.95. Advertised as “Las Vegas Style Blackjack Game Calculator Fun.”
label: Description
content: Radio Shack, <I>Blackjack 21 Owner’s Manual</I>,” Fort Worth, Texas: Tandy Corporation. An online version of this is at wass.net.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Taiwan
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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: 1986.0988.048
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.048
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: metal (case; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; trim material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 5 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 8.255 cm x 14.2875 cm