Object Details
- Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator has an aluminum case with plastic trim and an array of twenty-four rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, four memory keys, a square root key, a percentage key, a change sign key, and a clear entry/clear key. The on/off switch is to the left in the top row of keys. Text below the keyboard reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR LC-830 (/) TOSHIBA. Above the keyboard is an eight-digit liquid crystal display.
- A sticker on the back of the calculator reads in part: TOSHIBA (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) LC-830 (/) DC 4.5V SILVER OXIDE BATTERY. It also reads: NO. 247832 BM (/) TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO, LTD. JAPAN.
- The calculator is in a plastic wallet that is marked on the front: MADE IN JAPAN. The wallet also contains a pad of paper and a leaflet of instructions.
- References:
- According to the www.datamath.org website, accessed December 4, 2014, this calculator was introduced in 1978 and still in production in 1979.
- According to the mycalcdb.free.fr website, accessed December 4, 2014, this calculator was introduced by 1977 and still produced in 1979.
- [Advertisement], Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1979, p. A11. Calculator that appears to be this one is on sale for $19.99.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1979
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.124
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.124
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Other Terms
- electronic calculator; Handheld
- Physical Description
- metal (case material)
- plastic (keys; wallet material)
- glass (display screen material)
- paper (paper; instructions material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; .635 cm x 6.35 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_334538
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-789d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
