Calmax M16 Desktop Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
notes: label: Description
content: This desktop electronic calculator has a cream-colored plastic case, plastic keys, a glass display window and display tubes, a rubber-covered cord, and metal circuitry. The keyboard has ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a sign change key, four arithmetic function keys, a clear key, two memory keys, and a key for moving to the right or left in the display. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit vacuum fluorescent display that may be manipulated to show answers with as many as sixteen digits. The cord extends from the back of the machine.
label: Description
content: A mark above the display reads: CALMAX M16. A tag on the back of the machine reads: CALMAX (/) AC 115 V 50/60HZ 5W(/) SERIAL No. 02320 MADE IN JAPAN.
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content: Unscrewing four screws opens the case. One board, attached to the top part of the calculator, has a mark that reads: EL-8M. A second board, wired to the bottom, reads: EL-8M-2. One chip is marked: 10580SA (/) 2J 001 (/) SHARP. A second has a mark that reads: 10621SA (/) [. . .] (/) SHARP.
label: Description
content: An April 1975 advertisement in the <I>Washington Post</I> indicates that the Calmax M16 desktop calculator with memory then had a sale price of $39.95. The original price is not given.
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content: According to correspondence in the accession file, this calculator was used in the early to mid-1970s at the Washington office of the Institute of Public Administration of New York.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: <I>Washington Post</I>, April 10, 1975.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Desktop Electronic Calculators
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.02
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.02
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Object Name
content: calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; circuit boards material)
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content: metal (circuitry; screws material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (display window; tubes material)
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content: rubber (cord material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 8 in; 6.35 cm x 13.97 cm x 20.32 cm