MKD Bantam Electronic Cash Register
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: MKD Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This beige electronic cash register has a printing mechanism, an LED display, and a separate, locked cash drawer with a broken key. The interior of the register is accessible and includes a number of circuit boards, the printer mechanism, wires, and fuses. Two circuit boards are covered in plastic and one had double-stick tape and foam attached to it to block the heat of the power source. A disintegrating foam panel is in the front of the unit. Paper and a print cartridge are still in the machine.
label: Description
content: A tag on the top front of the machine reads: MKDBantam. A Hayman Cash Register Co. sticker is below this. The register has serial number 940561.
label: Description
content: MKD Corporation, formed in 1972, sold both point-of-sale terminals and low-cost electronic cash registers.
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content: Reference:
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content: Creative Strategies International, <I>Retail Automation to 1983</I>, San Jose: Creative Strategies International, 1980, esp. p. 111.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
label: place made
content: United States: Illinois
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Alan Hayman and Richard W. Hayman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0281.02
label: accession number
content: 2002.0281
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0281.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 19 1/4 in x 19 1/4 in; 38.1 cm x 48.895 cm x 48.895 cm