Tecxon LC-86 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
name: label: maker
content: TecXon Electronics Company, Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator is credit card-sized in a black plastic folder. It has a metal case with plastic trim and twenty-two rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, three memory keys, a percentage key, a square root key and a clear key. An off button is above the keyboard on the right. Text next to it reads: TecXon (/) MINI CARD LC-86. To the left, above two keys in the lower row, is a list of conversion factors for common and metric units. Behind is an eight-digit liquid crystal display. Text on the back reads: MADE IN TAIWAN (/) REP. OF CHINA. A mark on the inside of the case reads: MADE IN TAIWAN.
label: Description
content: According to records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, TecXon Electronics Company, Ltd., of Taipei, Taiwan, filed to register the trademark TecXon, as applied to telephones and calculators, in June 1983. They had been using the term in commerce since June 1982. The trademark was granted in November 1984. This calculator has no indication of a trademark on it.
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: 1986.0988.199
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.199
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 (carrying case; keys; button material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (display material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in; .3175 cm x 8.5725 cm x 5.715 cm