Toshiba LC-830 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1979
name: label: maker
content: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has an aluminum case with plastic trim and an array of twenty-four rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, four memory keys, a square root key, a percentage key, a change sign key, and a clear entry/clear key. The on/off switch is to the left in the top row of keys. Text below the keyboard reads: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR LC-830 (/) TOSHIBA. Above the keyboard is an eight-digit liquid crystal display.
label: Description
content: A sticker on the back of the calculator reads in part: TOSHIBA (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) LC-830 (/) DC 4.5V SILVER OXIDE BATTERY. It also reads: NO. 247832 BM (/) TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO, LTD. JAPAN.
label: Description
content: The calculator is in a plastic wallet that is marked on the front: MADE IN JAPAN. The wallet also contains a pad of paper and a leaflet of instructions.
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content: References:
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content: According to the www.datamath.org website, accessed December 4, 2014, this calculator was introduced in 1978 and still in production in 1979.
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content: According to the mycalcdb.free.fr website, accessed December 4, 2014, this calculator was introduced by 1977 and still produced in 1979.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, December 23, 1979, p. A11. Calculator that appears to be this one is on sale for $19.99.
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: 1986.0988.124
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.124
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Handheld
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; wallet material)
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content: glass (display screen material)
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content: paper (paper; instructions material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; .635 cm x 6.35 cm x 11.43 cm