Object Details
- Description
- This compact, non-printing handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case and display. In addtion to an array of ten digit keys, it has decimal and equal keys along the bottom; percentage, multiplication, addition, and clear keys in a column to the right of the digit keys; and a sign reversal key, division, subtraction and clear entry key right of these. Above these keys is an on/off switch, a clear memory key, an RM key, a subtract memory key, and an add memory key. The device has a nine-digit display.
- A mark above the display reads: ACCURON V.
- The back has a battery case. Below this is a sticker that reads: BATTERY 006P 9V or equivalent (/) Attempted repair by (/) unauthorised persons void [sic] (/) warranty (/) Made in Malaysia. A sticker inside the battery case reads: USE ALKALINE BATTERY (/) 9V FOR LONGER LIFE (/) SERIAL NO. G (/) No. 048647.
- According to the website calculator.org, the Accuron V was introduced in 1975.
- Reference:
- http://www.calculator.org, under Accuron.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1975
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.152
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.152
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (under keys material)
- paper (stickers material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 2 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 6.0325 cm x 10.795 cm
- place made
- Malaysia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334566
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-15c3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
