Check-A-Tron Electronic Cash Register
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Object Details
- Check-A-Tron Corporation
- Description
- This yellow-tinted electronic cash register sits atop an off-white cash drawer. It has black keyboard keys, a printer for receipts, and a red digital display. The key that opens the cash drawer is missing.
- A mark on the left front reads: CHECK-A-TRON. The machine has serial number 4500032. Stanley Hayman Business Machines stickers are on the front and the back.
- Check-A-Tron began selling an American-built electronic cash register in 1975. In 1977 it introduced the MICROS electronic cash register/point-of-sale terminal. The firm also distributed Sanyo cash registers made in Japan. According to a mark on this machine, it was assembled in the United States. By 1983 Check-A-Tron Corporation was out of the cash register business entirely.
- Reference:
- Creative Strategies Internaional, Retail Automation to 1983, San Jose: Creative Strategies International, 1980, esp. p. 116.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. Alan and Richard W. Hayman
- ca 1975
- ID Number
- 2002.0281.03
- accession number
- 2002.0281
- catalog number
- 2002.0281.03
- Object Name
- cash register
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 in x 16 in x 17 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 40.64 cm x 44.45 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- United States: New York, New York
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Cash and Credit Registers
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_1201235
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-5daa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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