Radio Shack EC-242 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Tandy Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a gray plastic case, a black keyboard, and twenty-two rectangular plastic keys. The meaning of the keys is written above them on the keyboard. Keys include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a clear/clear entry key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, two memory keys, an on key, and an off key. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit red LED display. Text behind this reads: Radio Shack (/) MEMORY EC-242.
label: Description
content: A compartment for a nine volt battery is at the top of the back. A jack for a power adapter is along the back edge. A sticker below the compartment reads: Radio Shack (/) Cat. No. : 65-617 (/) Model : EC-242 (/) DC : 9V (006P x 1) (/) For 120V AC Operation (/) Use AC Adaptor 65-731 (/) Custom Mfd. in Hong Kong for (/) RADIO SHACK. A Division of Tandy Corp. (/) 7J-207.
label: Description
content: Radio Shack advertised this “low-priced memory calculator” as “a real budget-master.”
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.044 (Radio Shack EC-243).
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Radio Shack, A Tandy Company, <i>1978 Catalog No. 289</i>, p. 146, accessed September 22, 2014, at radioshackcatalogs.com. The price listed is $8.88.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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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: 1986.0988.043
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.043
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: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 6.985 cm x 13.97 cm