Canon Palmtronic 8-T Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1976
name: label: maker
content: Canon, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a brown plastic case with cream-colored ends. It has a bank of ten digit keys, a decimal point key, an SC key, a clear key, a clear indicator (clear entry) key, four function keys, two memory keys, and a total key. Oval buttons are labeled hour, minute, and second. Above the keyboard is an eight-digit vacuum fluorescent display. An AUTO switch and an on/off switch are left of the display. Text above the display reads: SEXAGESIMAL CALCULATOR (/) Canon 8-T.
label: Description
content: Text on the back of the case reads: Canon (/) PALMTRONIC 8-T (/) BM. Further text reads: CANON INC. Further text reads: JAPAN.
label: Description
content: A socket for an adapter is on the top edge. (This example has no adapter.) A compartment on the back would hold two AA batteries. A sticker on the back of the compartment cover reads: 499563.
label: Description
content: The calculator fits in a black plastic sleeve marked: Canon. Both the sleeve and the calculator fit in a black paper box. A sticker on the box reads: $14.99.
label: Description
content: An advertisement in the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> describes the Canon Palmtronic 8-T, with AC adapter, as selling for $34.99.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, November 29, 1976, p. B6.
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: 1987.0435.22
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; display window; sleeve material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker; box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 in x 5 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.62 cm x 14.605 cm