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Object Details
- Sharp Corporation
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a brown and tan plastic case and an array of twenty square plastic keys with rounded courners. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a % key, four arithmetic function keys, a clear/clear entry key, a memory key (for the total), a square root key, and a total key. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit yellow LCD display. The on/off switch is to the left of the display. Text under the display reads: SHARP (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. A tag at the bottom of the keyboard reads: SHARP ELSI-MATE (/) EL-8034. A jack for a power cord is along the back edge.
- At the bottom of the back is a compartment for two AAA batteries. A paper sticker inside this compartment reads: 88055729. Text above the compartment reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) EL-8034. Further text reads: SHARP CORPORATION (/) MADE IN KOREA BM. A sticker above this lists patents incorporated in the calculator. The latest of the U.S. patents has number 3902169. It was issued in 1975 and assigned to Sharp.
- Compare 1986.0988.133 (Sharp EL-206).
- References:
- [Advertisement], Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1978, p. K4. Calculator advertised as selling in a wallet and at a special price of $10.
- [Advertisement], Washington Post, August 28, 1978, p. C28. Calculator advertised as regularly priced at $14.95, on sale for $11.97.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1978
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.136
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.136
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- paper (sticker material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 3 in x 5 in; 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm
- place made
- Korea
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334550
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-2d22-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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