Object Details
- Sanyo Electric Company
- Description
- This compact handheld electronic calculator has a metal case and twenty-three round plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, four arithmetic function keys, a decimal point key, a total key, two memory keys, a square root key, a change sign key, a % key, a clear K key, and a clear all key. The on/off switch is right of the top three keys. A mark above it reads: SANYO (/) CX8176L (/) Lithium Batteries Calculator. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display.
- A mark printed on the back of the calculator reads: SANYO CX-8176L (/) BATTERY: DC 6V (Two Type LF – ½ W (/) Lithium Manganese Batteries.) (/) POWER: 0.001W (/) SERIAL NO. 107194 T (/) SANYO ELECTRIC CO. LTD. (/) MADE IN JAPAN / FABRIQUE AU JAPON BM.
- According to the Panasonic website, the CX-8176L calculator, introduced in 1976, was the first Sanyo product to use Sanyo’s newly developed lithium batteries. Panasonic would acquire a majority ownership of Sanyo in 2009 and made it a totally owned subsidy in 2011.
- References:
- [Advertisement] Grand Prairie (Texas) Daily News, June 15, 1977, p. 57. Advertisement for Sanyo CX-8176L calculator.
- Panasonic.net website.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- 1976-1978
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.181
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.181
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- aluminum (case material)
- plastic (keys material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 4 1/8 in; .635 cm x 6.0325 cm x 10.4775 cm
- place made
- Japan
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Handheld Electronic Calculators
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_334595
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-376d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
