Object Details
- Calfax
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a mustard- and olive-colored plastic case and an array of twenty square plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a clear/clear entry key, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a percentage key, a memory key, and a recall memory/cancel memory key. The on/off switch is on the right side above the keyboard. A mark left of this reads: data brain II. Behind is an eight-digit LED display.
- A power jack is along the back edge of the calculator. A sticker on the back gives operating instructions. It reads in part: MANUFACTURED IN HONG KONG BY (/) AMERICAN IMPORT MERCHANTS CORPORATION (/) CALFAX DIVISION. Below this is a compartment for a nine-volt battery. A sticker below this reads: Serial No. 143893.
- Ball and Flamm give a date of about 1974 for this calculator.
- Reference: Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 43.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1974
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.251
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.251
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (case; keys material)
- metal (circuitry material)
- paper (stickers material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/2 in x 3 in x 5 3/8 in; 3.81 cm x 7.62 cm x 13.6525 cm
- place made
- China: Hong Kong
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1305781
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-1efb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
