Radio Shack EC-264 Handheld Electronic Calculator
Radio Shack EC-264 Handheld Electronic Calculator
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- Description
- This small, thin, flat handheld electronic calculator has a metal case and an array of twenty-four rectangular plastic keys. The ten digit keys and decimal point key are white. The total key, four arithmetic function keys, four memory keys, change sign key, % key, and square root key are brown. The clear/clear entry key is red. The on/off switch is to the left on the top row of keys.
- Text behind the keyboard reads: Radio Shack. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display. Text below the keyboard reads: statesman thin LCD.
- A sticker on the back of the case reads: Radio Shack (/) CAT. NO. 65-671 MODEL EC-264 (/) USE 2 TYPE-76 SILVER OXIDE (/) BATTERIES. (RS-CAT. NO. 23-009) (/) JAPAN.
- The calculator fits in a folding wallet. A mark on the back of the wallet reads: Radio Shack.
- Compare 1986.0988.047 and 1986.0988.223.
- Reference:
- Radio Shack, A Tandy Company, 1980 Catalog No. 315, p. 166, accessed September 22, 2014, at radioshackcatalogs.com/. The price listed for the calculator is $24.95.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- date made
- 1980
- maker
- Tandy Corporation
- place made
- Japan
- Physical Description
- metal (case; screws material)
- plastic (keys; case material)
- paper (sticker material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in;.9525 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.43 cm
- ID Number
- 1987.0435.27
- accession number
- 1987.0435
- catalog number
- 1987.0435.27
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 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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