Teal LC811 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1977
name: label: distributor
content: Teal Industries
label: maker
content: Tokyo Electronic Application Laboratory Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a metal case with plastic trim and an array of twenty-three rectangular plastic keys with rounded corners. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a change sign key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, a percentage key, a clear key, a clear entry key, and three memory keys. To the left in the top row of keys is an on/off switch. Behind this is an eight-digit liquid crystal display. Text above this reads: TEAL LC811.
label: Description
content: The back edge of the calculator has the cover for a compartment that would hold two silver oxide batteries.
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content: A sticker on the back of the calculator reads in part: TEAL LC811 (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. It also reads in part: SERIAL NO. 153744 (/) TEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. TORRANCE, CALIF. 90502 (/) MADE IN JAPAN.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a black plastic sleeve that serves as a carrying case, and a leaflet with instructions.
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content: TEAL calculators were made in Japan by Tokyo Electronic Application Laboratory Ltd.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, July 4, 1977, p. A8. Teal LC811 regularly costs $24.95, on sale for $19.95.
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content: Teal Industries, Inc., <I>Operating Instructions TEAL LC811 Super Thin Electronic Calculator</I>, Torrance, CA (no date).
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content: In 1978 Teal would introduce its Photon solar calculator, which had not only a liquid crystal display but was solar powered. See [Advertisement], <I>Popular Science</I>, vol. 213, #2, August 1978, p. 171.
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: 1987.0435.26
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (carrying case; keys; battery compartment material)
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content: paper (instructions material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.43 cm