SCM Marchant Model 10-CMA Calculating Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: SCM Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard, non-printing electric proportional gear calculating machine has a metal frame painted gray and ten columns of white and gray color-coded plastic digit keys, Each column has nine keys. To the right of the digit keys are diverse function keys. To the right of these are ten white keys for setting the multiplier. Right of these are two levers. Under the digit keys are a non-lock key and a carriage return key. Under the function keys is a lever. Over the function keys is another lever. Behind the digit keys are ten windows that show the number set up.
label: Description
content: A movable carriage behind the entry register has a 20-digit result register, a row of ten buttons numbered from 1 to 10, and an 11-digit revolution register. The band of vinyl trim around the center of the frame is called a “vinyl channel” in documentation for the machine. There are four cork feet.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the machine reads: SCM MARCHANT. A metal tag on the bottom reads: 10CMA 759928. A paper tag on the bottom lists several patents, the most recent of which is: 3017088. The machine is marked on the back SCM (/) MARCHANT.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: See 1979.3084.71.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: South Carolina, Orangeburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Calculating Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of SCM Corporation, Business Equipment Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.335378
label: accession number
content: 318944
label: maker number
content: 759928
label: catalog number
content: 335378
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calculating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.4 cm x 42 cm x 41.5 cm; 9 7/32 in x 16 17/32 in x 16 11/32 in