Brother 408AY Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1973
name: label: maker
content: Brother International Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This sturdy handheld electronic calculator has an array of ten round digit keys and a decimal point key. It also has four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a percentage key, a C key and a Cl key. Behind the keys is an off/on/K switch. A mark behind this reads: brother PROCAL 408AY. Behind this is an eight-digit vacuum fluorescent display. A connection for a power supply is on the side at the top.
label: Description
content: Four batteries would fit in a compartment in the back. A sticker above this reads: brother ELECTRONIC (/) CALCULATOR (/) MODEL 408AY USE MODEL 4086 (/) 6V DC 0.8W (/) NO B4013688 (/) BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. MADE IN JAPAN.
label: Description
content: Ball and Flamm give a date of about 1973 for this calculator. An advertisement for what was said to be the Brother 408AY appeared in the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> in October 1974, but this shows a different calculator. A December, 1974, advertisement in the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> lists the Brother 408AY as a calculator that cost over $50.00 and was on sale for $39.00.
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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, pp. 39–40.
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content: <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, December 13, 1974, p. a6.
label: Description
content: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, October 19, 1974, p. C4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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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: 1986.0988.273
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.273
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 4 in x 6 1/8 in; 4.445 cm x 10.16 cm x 15.5575 cm