Calmax M16 Desktop Electronic Calculator
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Object Details
- Description
- This desktop electronic calculator has a cream-colored plastic case, plastic keys, a glass display window and display tubes, a rubber-covered cord, and metal circuitry. The keyboard has ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a sign change key, four arithmetic function keys, a clear key, two memory keys, and a key for moving to the right or left in the display. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit vacuum fluorescent display that may be manipulated to show answers with as many as sixteen digits. The cord extends from the back of the machine.
- A mark above the display reads: CALMAX M16. A tag on the back of the machine reads: CALMAX (/) AC 115 V 50/60HZ 5W(/) SERIAL No. 02320 MADE IN JAPAN.
- Unscrewing four screws opens the case. One board, attached to the top part of the calculator, has a mark that reads: EL-8M. A second board, wired to the bottom, reads: EL-8M-2. One chip is marked: 10580SA (/) 2J 001 (/) SHARP. A second has a mark that reads: 10621SA (/) [. . .] (/) SHARP.
- An April 1975 advertisement in the Washington Post indicates that the Calmax M16 desktop calculator with memory then had a sale price of $39.95. The original price is not given.
- According to correspondence in the accession file, this calculator was used in the early to mid-1970s at the Washington office of the Institute of Public Administration of New York.
- Reference:
- Washington Post, April 10, 1975.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jon Eklund
- ca 1975
- ID Number
- 2006.0132.02
- catalog number
- 2006.0132.02
- accession number
- 2006.0132
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys; circuit boards material)
- metal (circuitry; screws material)
- glass (display window; tubes material)
- rubber (cord material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 8 in; 6.35 cm x 13.97 cm x 20.32 cm
- place made
- Japan
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- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Desktop Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_1302762
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-178a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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