Hewlett-Packard HP 48SX Scientific Expandable Handheld Electronic Calculator
Hewlett-Packard HP 48SX Scientific Expandable Handheld Electronic Calculator
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- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- The object was received with a zippered case and a spiral-bound instruction manual HP 48SX Scientific Expandable Owner’s Manual Volume 1. This example is Edition 3, published in May of 1990.
- The calculator was used by a faculty member at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
- Reference:
- W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, A Guide to HP Handheld Calculators and Computers , Tustin, California: Wilson/Burnett Publishing, 1997, pp. 98–99, 133.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- date made
- 1990
- maker
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- metal (keyboard; circuitry; manual binding material)
- plastic (case; keys; carrying case material)
- paper (manual material)
- Measurements
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ID Number
- 2014.0168.01
- catalog number
- 2014.0168.01
- accession number
- 2014.0168
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mark E. Kidwell
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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