Nobility Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: Cartron
notes: label: Description
content: This credit card-sized, battery-operated handheld electronic calculator has a red plastic case and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, and four memory keys, it has an off key, a square root key, a % key, a change sign key, and a clear key. An on/off switch is above the keyboard. A mark left of this reads: NOBILITY. The eight-digit LCD display is at the back. A mark in front of it reads: AUTO SHUT OFF. A mark on the metal back reads: CREDIT CARD ELECTRONIC (/) LIQUID CRYSTAL CALCULATOR (/) DC 2x1.5V – 0.0006W (/) SILVER OXIDE BATTERY (/) MADE IN HONG KONG.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a brown plastic case. This also holds a paper warranty indicating that: This calculator is warranted to be free from defects in material and workmanship’ [sic] (/) for a period of one year till October 1983. Toward the bottom, the warranty reads: CARTRON, G.P.O. BOX 1883, HONG KONG.
label: Description
content: Another paper sheet gives instructions in English, German, and French.
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: 1987.0435.28
label: accession number
content: 1987.0435
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0435.28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; carrying case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (instructions; warranty material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; .635 cm x 6.0325 cm x 8.89 cm