Mathmatic S-888 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1976
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a white and black plastic case with twenty rounded rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a percentage key, and a clear key, the calculator has two blank keys that appear to have no function. Just above the keyboard, on the left, is the on/off switch. Behind this is an eight-digit red LED display. A mark on the display cover reads: Mathmatic S-888.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a battery compartment at the top that is missing its cover. A sticker below this is marked: MODEL S-888. It gives examples of working the calculator. Further text at the bottom reads: MATHMATIC SALES, INC., WATERBURY, (/) CONNECTICUT 06704 (/) made in Thailand.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, July 11, 1973, p. 8. Mathmatic 808 (not 888 or S-888) calculator regularly $99.50, on sale for $77.00.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, August 1, 1973, p. 18. Mathmatic 808 calculator, originally $109.50, on sale for $79.00.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, October 14, 1973, p. 42. Mathmatic 808 calculator on sale for $69.95.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, January 1, 1975, p. C20. Mathmatic 888 (not S-888) advertised for $29. Regular price is $49.95. This is a different calculator.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Thailand
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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
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content: Gift of John B. Priser
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0988.330
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.330
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988.330
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
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content: metal (circuitry material)
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content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 in x 5 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.62 cm x 14.9225 cm