General Information

Serial #

1803S03186

Part Number

1

Total Parts

7

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC CASING, METAL & SYNTHETIC WORKING PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

15.2 cm

Width

8.1 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

3.8 cm

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Mathematics

Category

Calculating devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

HEWLETT PACKARD

Country

Singapore

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

C. 1976 +

Canada

AMERICAN MADE CALCULATORUSED BY CANADA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM'S CORPORATE SERVICES. SUCH PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS WERE MOST OFTEN USED BY SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS.

Function

PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATING DEVICE WHICH PERFORMS ELECTRONICALLY SUCH CALCULATIONS AS ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, EXPONENTS ETC. PROGRAM STRIPS ENABLED PROGRAMS TO RUN & CALCULATE SUCH THINGS AS MOVING AVERAGES, CURVE FITTING, VECTOR OPERATIONS, ENGLISH-SI CONVERSIONS, ARITHMETIC TEACHER.

Technical

EXAMPLE OF MID-LATE 1970'S ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR WHICH ALTHOUGH MUCH SMALLER, WAS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN ITS PREDECESSORS. HP-67 WAS SUCCESSOR TO HP-65, WHICH WAS FIRST HAND-HELD CALCULATOR WITH PROGRAMMABLE STRIPS. HP-65 FIRST APPEARED IN CANADA IN EARLY 1974 & LESS EXPENSIVE HP-67 APPEARED IN 1976. H-P WERE LEADERS IN DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-FUNCTION CALCULATORS & QUALITY WAS SECOND TO NONE.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

WHITE LETTERING ON FRONT READS "HEWLETT-PACKARD 67" WITH BLUE & SILVER "hp" LOGO; INCISED "1803S03186" ON BACK, WITH METRIC CONVERSION CHART; MULTICOLOURED LETTERING FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS & KEYS.

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE

Finish

TEXTURED BROWN CASING; DARK PURPLE FRONT WITH BUFF, BROWN, BLUE, BLACK ORANGE KEYS, BLACK SWITCHES.

Decoration

METALLIC STRIP AROUND FRONT PANEL