Check-A-Tron Electronic Cash Register
date: label: date made
content: ca 1975
name: label: maker
content: Check-A-Tron Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This yellow-tinted electronic cash register sits atop an off-white cash drawer. It has black keyboard keys, a printer for receipts, and a red digital display. The key that opens the cash drawer is missing.
label: Description
content: A mark on the left front reads: CHECK-A-TRON. The machine has serial number 4500032. Stanley Hayman Business Machines stickers are on the front and the back.
label: Description
content: Check-A-Tron began selling an American-built electronic cash register in 1975. In 1977 it introduced the MICROS electronic cash register/point-of-sale terminal. The firm also distributed Sanyo cash registers made in Japan. According to a mark on this machine, it was assembled in the United States. By 1983 Check-A-Tron Corporation was out of the cash register business entirely.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Creative Strategies Internaional, <I>Retail Automation to 1983</I>, San Jose: Creative Strategies International, 1980, esp. p. 116.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Alan and Richard W. Hayman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0281.03
label: accession number
content: 2002.0281
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0281.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 16 in x 17 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 40.64 cm x 44.45 cm