Sanyo CX 8176L Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1976-1978
name: label: maker
content: Sanyo Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: This compact handheld electronic calculator has a metal case and twenty-three round plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, four arithmetic function keys, a decimal point key, a total key, two memory keys, a square root key, a change sign key, a % key, a clear K key, and a clear all key. The on/off switch is right of the top three keys. A mark above it reads: SANYO (/) CX8176L (/) Lithium Batteries Calculator. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display.
label: Description
content: A mark printed on the back of the calculator reads: SANYO CX-8176L (/) BATTERY: DC 6V (Two Type LF – ½ W (/) Lithium Manganese Batteries.) (/) POWER: 0.001W (/) SERIAL NO. 107194 T (/) SANYO ELECTRIC CO. LTD. (/) MADE IN JAPAN / FABRIQUE AU JAPON BM.
label: Description
content: According to the Panasonic website, the CX-8176L calculator, introduced in 1976, was the first Sanyo product to use Sanyo’s newly developed lithium batteries. Panasonic would acquire a majority ownership of Sanyo in 2009 and made it a totally owned subsidy in 2011.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement] <I>Grand Prairie (Texas) Daily News</I>, June 15, 1977, p. 57. Advertisement for Sanyo CX-8176L calculator.
label: Description
content: Panasonic.net website.
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: 1986.0988.181
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.181
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 4 1/8 in; .635 cm x 6.0325 cm x 10.4775 cm