National Semiconductor Novus 831 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1976-1977
name: label: maker
content: National Semiconductor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a tan plastic case with a tan and brown keyboard. Its capabilities are suited to student use, including not only the four functions of arithmetic but square roots, squares, and percentages. In addition to keys for these, the calculator has ten rectangular digit keys, a clear entry/clear key, a decimal point key, and a total key. The on/off switch is above these keys. Text above this reads: 831 NOVUS. Behind this is an eight-digit LED display. A jack for a power adapter is on the left side.
label: Description
content: The battery compartment opens from the back.
label: Description
content: Advertisements for the Novus 831 give a list price of $10.88 and a sale price of $9.44.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, April 4, 1976, Novus 831 calculator sold for $9.44.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, September 19, 1976, p. L16. Novus 831 calculator sold for $9.44, regularly $10.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, December 19, 1976, p. O4. Novus 831 calculator sold for $6.88, regularly $9.88.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Ogden Standard-Examiner</I>, June 14, 1977, p. 3. Novus 831 offered as giveaway for bank depositors.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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: 1986.0988.226
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.226
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 6.35 cm x 13.97 cm