Sharp EL-8034 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
name: label: maker
content: Sharp Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a brown and tan plastic case and an array of twenty square plastic keys with rounded courners. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a % key, four arithmetic function keys, a clear/clear entry key, a memory key (for the total), a square root key, and a total key. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit yellow LCD display. The on/off switch is to the left of the display. Text under the display reads: SHARP (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. A tag at the bottom of the keyboard reads: SHARP ELSI-MATE (/) EL-8034. A jack for a power cord is along the back edge.
label: Description
content: At the bottom of the back is a compartment for two AAA batteries. A paper sticker inside this compartment reads: 88055729. Text above the compartment reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) EL-8034. Further text reads: SHARP CORPORATION (/) MADE IN KOREA BM. A sticker above this lists patents incorporated in the calculator. The latest of the U.S. patents has number 3902169. It was issued in 1975 and assigned to Sharp.
label: Description
content: Compare 1986.0988.133 (Sharp EL-206).
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, July 12, 1978, p. K4. Calculator advertised as selling in a wallet and at a special price of $10.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, August 28, 1978, p. C28. Calculator advertised as regularly priced at $14.95, on sale for $11.97.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Korea
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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: 1986.0988.136
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.136
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; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 3 in x 5 in; 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm