Bohsei LCD-700 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
notes: label: Description
content: This silver-colored electronic calculator has black plastic keys and trim. In addition to ten digit keys and a decimal point key, it has three memory keys, four arithmetic function keys, a percentage key, a square root key, a change sign key, a clear key, a clear entry key, and a total key. The on/off switch is at the upper left corner of the keyboard. A mark above the keyboard reads: BOHSEI (/) LCD-700. Behind this is the eight-digit liquid crystal display.
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content: A mark stamped on the back of the calculator reads: MADE IN HONG KONG.
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content: Newspaper advertisements indicate that a printing desktop electronic calculator sold under the Bohsei name in 1977. A 1978 advertisement in the <I>Santa Cruz Sentinal</I> lists the LCD-700, indicating that its battery (not accessible) lasts ups to eight hundred hours. In 1981, advertisements describe a Bohsei wallet-sized calculator and a Bohsei credit card-sized calculator, which are different models.
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content: References:
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content: <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, November 24, 1977, p. T12.
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content: <I>Santa Cruz Sentinal</I>, May 31, 1978, p. 5.
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content: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, March 6, 1981, p. F17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Handheld Electronic Calculators
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content: Gift of John B. Priser
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0435.21
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.21
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content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (case material)
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content: plastic (edges; keys; display window material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 6.35 cm x 11.43 cm