Victor 95 Handheld Electronic Calculator
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Object Details
- Victor Comptometer Corporation
- General Instruments
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has an orange and brown plastic case with an array of seventeen large plastic keys, most of them square. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a constant key, and a clear key. The on/off switch is above these on the left. A mark right of this reads: VICTOR. Behind these is an eight-digit red LED display. A power jack is on the back edge.
- Extensive operating instructions are molded into the plastic of the back of the case. These read in part: Made in Canada For (/) VICTOR COMPTOMETER CORPORATION (/) Model No. 95 (/) Current 6 Volts D.C. Further text reads: Date Mfd. ELG41.
- A hard plastic lid fits over the calculator and also can be used to rest it at an angle.
- Victor Comptometer Corporation traced its roots to Dorr E. Felt’s invention of a key-driven mechanical adding machine called the Comptometer in the 1880s.
- Compare Radio Shack EC225 (1986.0988.039). Both devices were made in Canada by General Instrument.
- References:
- [Advertisement], Los Angeles Times, August 9, 1975, p. C4. Special price $23.95.
- Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 176.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1974
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.247
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.247
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; cover; keys material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 3 in x 6 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 17.145 cm
- place made
- Canada
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1305777
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-430b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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