Victor 95 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: maker
content: Victor Comptometer Corporation
label: maker
content: General Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has an orange and brown plastic case with an array of seventeen large plastic keys, most of them square. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a constant key, and a clear key. The on/off switch is above these on the left. A mark right of this reads: VICTOR. Behind these is an eight-digit red LED display. A power jack is on the back edge.
label: Description
content: Extensive operating instructions are molded into the plastic of the back of the case. These read in part: Made in Canada For (/) VICTOR COMPTOMETER CORPORATION (/) Model No. 95 (/) Current 6 Volts D.C. Further text reads: Date Mfd. ELG41.
label: Description
content: A hard plastic lid fits over the calculator and also can be used to rest it at an angle.
label: Description
content: Victor Comptometer Corporation traced its roots to Dorr E. Felt’s invention of a key-driven mechanical adding machine called the Comptometer in the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Compare Radio Shack EC225 (1986.0988.039). Both devices were made in Canada by General Instrument.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, August 9, 1975, p. C4. Special price $23.95.
label: Description
content: Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, <I>The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators</I>, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 176.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada
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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: 1986.0988.247
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.247
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; cover; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 in x 6 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 17.145 cm