Object Details
- distributor
- Teal Industries
- Tokyo Electronic Application Laboratory Ltd.
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has a metal case with plastic trim and an array of twenty-three rectangular plastic keys with rounded corners. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a change sign key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a percentage key, a clear key, a clear entry key, and three memory keys. To the left in the top row of keys is an on/off switch. Behind this is an eight-digit liquid crystal display. Text above this reads: TEAL LC811.
- The back edge of the calculator has the cover for a compartment that would hold two silver oxide batteries.
- A sticker on the back of the calculator reads in part: TEAL LC811 (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. It also reads in part: SERIAL NO. 153744 (/) TEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. TORRANCE, CALIF. 90502 (/) MADE IN JAPAN.
- The calculator has a black plastic sleeve that serves as a carrying case, and a leaflet with instructions.
- TEAL calculators were made in Japan by Tokyo Electronic Application Laboratory Ltd.
- References:
- [Advertisement], Washington Post, July 4, 1977, p. A8. Teal LC811 regularly costs $24.95, on sale for $19.95.
- Teal Industries, Inc., Operating Instructions TEAL LC811 Super Thin Electronic Calculator, Torrance, CA (no date).
- In 1978 Teal would introduce its Photon solar calculator, which had not only a liquid crystal display but was solar powered. See [Advertisement], Popular Science, vol. 213, #2, August 1978, p. 171.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1977
- ID Number
- 1987.0435.26
- accession number
- 1987.0435
- catalog number
- 1987.0435.26
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- metal (case material)
- plastic (carrying case; keys; battery compartment material)
- paper (instructions material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.43 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_214350
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-f623-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
