Object Details
- Zykkor
- Description
- This handheld electronic calculator is on a key chain. It has a gold-colored metal case with an array of twenty-five metal keys and a metal chain. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, and four memory keys, it has a square root key, a percentage key, a clear entry key, an on/clear key, and an off key. A mark above the keys reads: ZYKKOR LC-244. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display.
- Zykkor was a Japanese manufacturer of optical lenses and other photographic products. In the 1980s it distributed a wide variety of electronic products.
- A mark on the back reads: MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C. (/) FABRIQUE A TAIWAN R.D.C.
- The calculator.org website gives a date of introduction of 1985 for this calculator.
- References:
- Calculator.org website, accessed July 8, 2015.
- [Advertisement], New York Times, January 29, 1985, p. A7. Zykkor LC-220 (a different model calculator) advertised as on sale for $3.95.
- MyCalcDB.free.fr website, accessed July 8, 2015.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of John B. Priser
- ca 1985
- ID Number
- 1986.0988.339
- catalog number
- 1986.0988.339
- accession number
- 1986.0988
- Object Name
- electronic calculator
- Physical Description
- metal (case; keys; chain material)
- plastic (circuit board material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 4.445 cm x 5.715 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_1363895
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-4b62-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
