Casio SL-80 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1983-1985
name: label: maker
content: Casio Computer Company
notes: label: Description
content: This compact handheld electronic calculator has a plastic case about the size of a credit card holder. Opening the case reveals a keypad (there are no actual keys) on the right and a display and solar panel on the left. In addition to ten digits, a decimal point, a total, four arithmetic functions, a percentage, and a square root, there are icons for three memory functions, C (clear entry) and AC (all clear). Text in the corner of the right side reads: TOUCH (/) KEY. Text on the left side reads: CASIO (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR SL-80 CM MADE IN JAPAN. Text immediately below the eight-digit liquid crystal display window reads: HIGH-POWER (/) SOLAR CELL. A mark on the front of the case reads: CASIO.
label: Description
content: This is one of several “slim line” solar-powered calculators introduced by Casio in the 1980s. A March 1983 advertisement in the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> lists it as selling for $14.99. A June advertisement in the same newspaper, aimed particularly at Father’s Day sales, gives an original price of $19.99 and a price of $14.99. The same calculator was advertised in the <I>Washington Post</I> December 18, 1985, as selling at a low price of $4.97.
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content: References:
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content: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, March 26, 1983, p. C6.
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content: <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, June 16, 1983, p. D1.
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content: <I>Washington Post</I>, December 19, 1985, p. VA17.
label: Description
content: Casio’s full line of products in 1984 is shown at the company's website.
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: 1987.0435.30
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keyboard material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (solar panel material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (display case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/16 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 in; .4826 cm x 8.5725 cm x 5.08 cm