Lloyd's E805 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1974
name: label: maker
content: Lloyd's Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a tan plastic case, twenty roughly rectangular plastic buttons, and a plastic display cover. In addition to ten digit keys, a clear key, a decimal point key, two memory keys, and four arithmetic function keys, it has (although the labels are missing on this example) a percentage key and a total key. The on/off switch is behind the keys. Next to it a label reads: LLOYD’S (/) ACCUMATIC 40. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display, with a window behind this to admit light. An owner's mark above the display reads: $5.00.
label: Description
content: At the base of the back is a battery compartment that would hold two batteries. A worn sticker above it reads: LLOYD’S ELECTRONICS, INC. (/) COMPTON, CALIF., U.S.A. (/) MODEL E805 CALCULATOR (/) SE. . . NO. 103220 (/) Assembled in MEXICO (/) Primarily UNITED STATES parts.
label: Description
content: For further information about Lloyd’s Electronics, Inc., see 1986.0988.218.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, November 16, 1974, p. 9. Calculator introduced for $59.95. Now selling for $29.99. Offered in <I>Business Week</I> and, under a different name, in <I>The Wall Street Journal</I> and in <I>Forbes</I>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
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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: 1986.0988.123
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.123
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; display cover; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 6 in; 3.81 cm x 8.255 cm x 15.24 cm