Object Details
- Texas Instruments
- Description
- The “calculator-on-a-chip” is a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit announced by Texas Instruments in September of 1971. A variation was sold in the early handheld electronic calculators of companies like Bowmar, as well as in TI's first portable calculator, the Datamath, introduced in September, 1972.
- According to a press release issued at the time of the donation in 1975, the device provided the equivalent of some six thousand transistors.
- Compare 1987.0487.233.
- References:
- Accession file 319050.
- Online Datamath Museum, accessed June 19, 2015
- Online NMAH Chip site, accessed June 19, 2015.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Texas Instruments
- 1971
- ID Number
- CI.336019
- accession number
- 319050
- catalog number
- 336019
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- metal (circuitry material)
- ceramic (base material)
- Measurements
- overall: .6 cm x 3.6 cm x 1.6 cm; 1/4 in x 1 13/32 in x 5/8 in
- place made
- United States: Texas, Dallas
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334806
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-349f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
