Lloyd's Accumatic 70 Model E752 Desktop Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1972
label: date made
content: ca 1973
name: label: maker
content: Lloyd's Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: This small, desktop electronic calculator has ten digit buttons and a decimal point button on the left front, five function buttons (for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, total and canceling) on the right front, and an on/off switch. Instructions for doing basic operations are on the back of the calculator.
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content: The instrument fits in a cardboard box and has a paper instruction leaflet dated November 72. The instructions are given in English and French.
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content: The calculator has an eight-digit liquid crystal display. The chips in it were made by Rockwell . According to a mark on the object, the calculator was: ASSEMBLED IN MEXICO PRIMARILY OF (/) UNITED STATES PARTS. The serial number of this example is 129495 and it was sold by Lloyd's Electronics, Inc. of Compton, California (near Los Angeles).
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content: The electronic calculator was owned by the late David H. Shayt, a curator at NMAH.
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content: Compare object 2011.0186.01, an Accumatic 100. The 100 has a case and, a cover for the LCD screen, and, according to the illustration on the box, was supposed to have a power adapter.
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content: References:
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content: Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, <I>The Complete Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators</I>, Tustin, Calif.: Wilson/Barnett Publishing, 1997, pp. 88–92 describes the related Accumatic 100.
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content: [Advertisement], <New York Times</I>, July 2, 1972, p. 25. Introduces an eight-digit protable electronic calculator sold by Lloyd's, costing $99.95. This resembles this object, though no model number is given.
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content: [Advertisement], <i>New York Times</I>, December 17, 1972, p. F3. Describes a Lloyd's desktop calculator very similar to this one, manufactured by North American Rockwell. Sale price $69.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, August 31, 1973, p. B6. Lloyd's Accumatic 70 on sale for $69.97.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Compton
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: Gift of David H. Shayt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0462.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0462.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0462
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case, keys material)
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content: paper (box, instructions material)
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content: metal (wiring material)
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content: glass (display material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23.5 cm x 14 cm x 50 cm; 9 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 19 11/16 in