Sears 711.58270 Handheld Electronic Calculator (Sears 5827)
date: label: date made
content: 1978-1980
name: label: maker
content: Sears, Roebuck and Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This compact handheld electronic calculator has a metal case with plastic trim and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, four memory keys, a recall key, a change sign key, a % key, and a clear entry/clear key. Above the keys and to the left is an on/off switch. Text above this reads: Sears LC 84. Above this is an eight-digit LCD display.
label: Description
content: Text printed on the back of the calculator reads in part: IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING (/) THIS ARTICLE ALWAYS MENTION (/) MODEL (/) NUMBER 711.5870. Further text reads: SERIAL NUMBER (/) #2264953 MADE IN TAIWAN.
label: Description
content: The calculator fits in a brown plastic wallet.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.364.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, September 24, 1978, p. D6. Advertised as regularly priced at $19.99, on sale for $15.99.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, December 9, 1979, p. A21. Advertised as regularly priced at $19.99, on sale for $16.99.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, September 24, 1980, p. C8. Advertised as regularly priced at $19.99, on sale for $14.99.
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content: Sears, Roebuck and Co., <I>Sears Spring Summer 1979 [Catalog]</I>, 1979, p. 575. Model LC 84 calculator on sale for $19.49.
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content: Sears, Roebuck and Co., <I>Sears Fall Winter 1979 [Catalog]</I>, 1979, p. 1273. Model LC 84 calculator on sale for $19.49.
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content: Sears, Roebuck and Co., <I>Sears Spring Summer [Catalog]</I>, 1980, p. 1185. Model LC 84 calculator on sale for $17.49.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Taiwan
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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: 1986.0988.363
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.363
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 6.35 cm x 10.795 cm