Object Details
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator is in the shape of a checkbook, and was designed to assist in balancing accounts. It has a metal case with twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a clear entry/clear key and a total key, it has a percentage key, a recall key, and deposit, check, and balance keys. The on/off switch is on the left side. Above the keyboard is an LCD display. A mark to the left of the display reads: Money Manager.
- Text on the back reads: Money Memory (/) SILVER OXIDE BATTERY (/) 1.5Vx2PCS 0.0002W (/) MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C. A sticker on the back reads: 3.1980. Another sticker on the back reads: 274. Both references to Money Manager are marked with a symbol for trademark registration.
- According to U.S. trademark records, the term "Money Memory" for an electronic calculator was first used in commerce in September 7, 1978, and a trademark was requested that year. Registration was granted March 24, 1981, to Leonard P. Weber of Sherman Oaks, CA, and the trademark was abandoned in 1987.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1980
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.336
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.336
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- plastic (keys; trim material)
- metal (case; circuitry material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 6 in x 2 3/4 in; .635 cm x 15.24 cm x 6.985 cm
- place made
- Taiwan
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1363823
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-c099-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
