Montgomery Ward P201 Handheld Electronic Calculator (Model Number DAN-8569A)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: APF Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case with metal keyboard and twenty-four rounded rectangular plastic keys. These include an array of ten white digit keys and five black keys for the four arithmetic operations and percentage. Decimal point, exchange, clear entry/clear, equals, four memory functions, and D (display) keys are red. A red LED display for eight digits and a decimal point is behind the keys and a battery compartment at the top. A mark above the display reads: MONTGOMERY (/) WARD P201. A power jack is along the back edge.
label: Description
content: A silver-colored paper tag on the back gives operating instructions. It reads at the top: MONTGOMERY (/) WARD. It also reads near there: P201 MEMORY CALCULATOR (/) OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. It reads near the bottom: DAN-8659A (/) Model No. It also reads there: 47X-47654 (/) Serial No. The bottom of this tag reads: Assembled in U.S.A.
label: Description
content: Compare the APF Mark 25 (1986.0988.165).
label: Description
content: The calculator was made for Montgomery Ward by APF Electronics.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, <I>The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators</I>, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 102.
label: Description
content: Online Datamath Calculator Museum, accessed August 29, 2014.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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: 1986.0988.249
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.249
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; key cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (keyboard; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 in x 6 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm