Bohsei Model 1000 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a light gray plastic case. It has ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, and a total key. The keyboard has special blue squares surrounding the keys for pi, square root, reciprocal, percentage, and clear entry/clear. The four memory keys also have a blue background. The eight-digit green fluorescent display is behind the keyboard. A mark at the top left reads: BOHSEI. A mark immediately above the display reads: MODEL 1000. The on/off swith is on the right side.
label: Description
content: The case has a compartment for AA two batteries at the back. A gold-colored paper tag reads: Serial No. (/) 932770 (/) MADE IN HONG KONG. The calculator has a socket for an adapter on the top, but no adapter in this example.
label: Description
content: Newspaper advertisements indicate that a printing desktop electronic calculator was sold under the Bohsei name in 1977. A February 1978 advertisement in the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> indicates that the Bohsei Model 1000 was then on sale at a special price of $8.88.
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content: References:
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content: <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, November 24, 1977, p. T12.
label: Description
content: <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, February 25, 1978, p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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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: 1986.0988.158
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.158
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; display window; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm x 13.335 cm