Object Details
maker
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
date made
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
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_334806