National Semiconductor 835A Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1979
name: label: maker
content: National Semiconductor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a dark brown plastic case and twenty-three rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a clear entry key, a clear key, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, four memory keys, and a percentage key. Left of the top row of keys is an on/off switch. A mark above it reads: 835. A mark to the right of this mark reads: National (/) Semiconductor.
label: Description
content: Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit LED display. A jack for an adapter is on the left side. The back of the calculator has a compartment for a battery. Text at the bottom of the back reads: MADE IN HONG KONG.
label: Description
content: Compare to Novus 835 (1986.0988.276), which was also made by National Semiconductor. Also see the National Semiconductor 835 (1986.0988.229). These two calculators have a % key, which this one does not. Also, on the 835A the clear and the clear entry keys are distinct.
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content: Reference:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, April 9, 1979, p. D10. The National Semiconductor 835A is the least expensive of three calculators distributed as part of a bank special offer. Other calculators listed are the National Semiconductor NS 99 and National Semiconductor 102A.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John B. Priser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0988.230
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.230
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 13.97 cm