12-Digit Dual-Power Calculator with Tax Function |  | Brand: Radio Shack
Buy New: $39.99
as of 11/24/2009 10:23 CST details
Rating:  1 reviews
MPN: 650-1007
Model: 650-1007
UPC: 040293014322
EAN: 0040293014322
ASIN: B0010JXKWA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-3 weeks
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| Features:
| • | 12-digit, easy-to-read display | | • | Tax function for easy calculations | | • | Solar/battery power allows you to work in any lighting condition | | • | What's in the box: manual |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Taxes made simple.
Ease of use is key for this calculator. The 12-digit display is easy to read and you can even adjust the display for easy viewing and to avoid glare. Plus, the tax function key is provided so calculations can be made easily.
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| Customer Reviews:
I T ...H A S...P L U S E S............A N D.....M I N U S E S September 19, 2009
Patricia (Queens, New York, USA)
This is a handsome looking calculator! Brushed metal body, comfortable, rubber-covered keys. A full twelve digits one can easily hold in one's hand! A bit heavy for pocket or purse...but it can be done! If you absolutely MUST have a TWELVE digit calcultor ti carrt around with you, this one will fit the bill --and purse or pocket, much more easily than many another 12-digit machine. Although not THE smallest 12-digit calculator around, it has to be one of the top 10!
This model, 65-1007, is a re-do of ANOTHER calcultor, also with the model number 65-1007! (I own both machines). They look almost alike, but have some differences. The older calculator, (seemingly not now available), had larger keys...but they seemed hollow, and were more tiring when continually pressed. The older model had plastic, where this one has substituted a more attractive brushed metal. The older machine also was a teensy bit more bulky, though both are of the same approximate size.
HOWEVER, THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGE TO THE NEWER MODEL, HERE BEING REVIEWED, IS THIS: There is a small, separate compartment on the bottom of the calculator, on the right side, which opens with a screwdriver. This enables the USER to replace the battery -- one "AG10W" or "391A" -- with only the said screwdriver, (and the new battery, of course) -- WITHOUT opening the entire back of the machine! Very handy and convenient! (The older model used one "LR1130" battery...and required the entire back to be taken off, en order for the battery to be replaced.)
The "Minus" to this calculator is this: the display is not as easily read as was the older model's. This really isn't apparent, however, unless the two machines are side by side. Although the back area isn't as bright as some machines, this calculator is quite legible in most lighting situations.
The tax calculation section is adequate, and handy. It also has a convenient, (and always working), "CE" key. This calculator, (as did it's earlier, model, with the same model number), also has a sliding "F, 5/4, and CUT 2" section, for decimals, and an "arrow" key, for correcting imput.
The older model, as mentioned above, did NOT have the separate battery compartment, and so necessitated taking the entire back off, to replace the battery. Much more inconvenient! The older model listed at $8.95, (about 20 years ago) -- this one is $39.95. Inflation, it seems, continually marches on! But -- with its new improvements -- its separate battery compartment, its handsome metal facing, its still-smallish size, and its more-easily pressed keys, this newer model may be just what anyone who wants, or needs, a smallish 12- DIGIT, easily-carried-when-necessary, desktop calculator, should have!
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