Object Details
- Lloyd's Electronics
- Description
- This small, desktop electronic calculator has ten digit buttons and a decimal point button on the left front, five function buttons (for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, total and canceling) on the right front, and an on/off switch. Instructions for doing basic operations are on the back of the calculator.
- The instrument fits in a cardboard box and has a paper instruction leaflet dated November 72. The instructions are given in English and French.
- The calculator has an eight-digit liquid crystal display. The chips in it were made by Rockwell . According to a mark on the object, the calculator was: ASSEMBLED IN MEXICO PRIMARILY OF (/) UNITED STATES PARTS. The serial number of this example is 129495 and it was sold by Lloyd's Electronics, Inc. of Compton, California (near Los Angeles).
- The electronic calculator was owned by the late David H. Shayt, a curator at NMAH.
- Compare object 2011.0186.01, an Accumatic 100. The 100 has a case and, a cover for the LCD screen, and, according to the illustration on the box, was supposed to have a power adapter.
- References:
- Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, The Complete Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators, Tustin, Calif.: Wilson/Barnett Publishing, 1997, pp. 88–92 describes the related Accumatic 100.
- [Advertisement],
, July 2, 1972, p. 25. Introduces an eight-digit protable electronic calculator sold by Lloyd's, costing $99.95. This resembles this object, though no model number is given. - [Advertisement], New York Times, December 17, 1972, p. F3. Describes a Lloyd's desktop calculator very similar to this one, manufactured by North American Rockwell. Sale price $69.88.
- [Advertisement], Los Angeles Times, August 31, 1973, p. B6. Lloyd's Accumatic 70 on sale for $69.97.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of David H. Shayt
- ca 1972
- ca 1973
- ID Number
- 1990.0462.01
- catalog number
- 1990.0462.01
- accession number
- 1990.0462
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case, keys material)
- paper (box, instructions material)
- metal (wiring material)
- glass (display material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 23.5 cm x 14 cm x 50 cm; 9 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 19 11/16 in
- place made
- United States: California, Compton
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Desktop Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_1064148
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-13b6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
