Technico LC 707M Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Inventa Electronics Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Inventa Electronics Corporation of Taipei, Taiwan, filed for the trademark Technico, as used for electronic calculators, in August 1981, having used the term in commerce since 1975. The trademark was published in 1983 and abandoned in 1988. This example of the calculator was sold under the Technico trademark.
label: Description
content: The credit card-sized calculator has a metal case with plastic trim and an array of twenty-four rectangular plastic keys. This includes ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a percentage key, and a square root key. Left of these are an on key, an off key, three memory keys, and a clear entry/clear key. Behind the keys to the left is an eight-digit LCD display. Text right of this reads: Technico (/) LC 707M. Text on the back of the calculator reads in part: MADE IN TAIWAN.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, November 4, 1978, p. D9. A very similar Technico calculator, called the LC707 but said to have memory, advertised as on sale for $19.95.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, December 11, 1981, p. A20. Technico LC 707M advertised as on sale for $9.95.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Washington Post</I>, January 15, 1982, p. B2. Technico LC 707M advertised as on sale for $8.95.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Taiwan
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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: 1987.0435.20
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; trim material)
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content: glass (display material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in; .635 cm x 9.525 cm x 5.3975 cm