Accession Number: 2015.21.2
Description: Putty colored plastic chassis built around a Sharp PC-1246 Pocket Computer; chassis has a speaker grill in top right, an AC-DC power supply adapter on back right, a volume knob and headphone jack on the left, a battery compartment on the bottom, and is screened in blue on top, "Q-CALC talking scientific calculator/quantum"; the Sharp PC-1246 has a brushed aluminum faceplate with a rectangular LCD display in the upper left, power toggle at top right, QWERTY keyboard below the display and a numerical keypad to right of the display along with some function keys; secondary values of all keys are printed above each key on the faceplate; serial number written in battery compartment, "10".
Height: 2
Width: 7.75
Depth: 5.5
Date Made: ca. 1988
Maker: Quantum
Place of Origin: Australia
Collection: APH Collection
History/Provenance: APH Collection
Credit Line: APH Collection, 2015.21
Subjects: Assistive technology Arithmetic Blind Calculators Instructional aids, tools, and supplies Mathematics
Dimension Notes: Overall
Made: Quantum Technology
Material: Plastic; aluminum
Updated: 02/15/2021