Sears CI 801.58000 Desktop Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1972
name: label: maker
content: Sears, Roebuck and Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This lightweight desktop electronic calculator has a turquoise and gray plastic case, an array of nine digit keys, and a zero bar and decimal point key below the digit keys. Keys for the arithmetic operations, a percent key, an equals key, and a cancel key are right of these. The liquid crystal display is behind the keys, and the power switch is on the side. The calculator has prongs for a cord but no cord. It has a clear plastic cover.
label: Description
content: A stamp on the bottom of the inside of the case reads: 111772.
label: Description
content: A mark above and behind the display reads: Sears C1. A sticker on the bottom reads in part: MODEL (/) NUMBER 801.58000 (/) CALCULATOR (/) # 142329. It also reads in part: ASSEMBLED IN MEXICO.
label: Description
content: Sears reportedly first sold an electronic calculator in 1972. An advertisement for the C1 appeared in the <I>Boston Globe</I> in January of 1973, listing the machine as on sale for $89.88, $10.07 off the usual price of $99.95. The ad indicates that the calculator had an eight-digit capacity.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: “Sears Catalog Geared to Special Customers,” <I> Chicago Daily Defender</I>, January 15, 1972, p. 16.
label: Description
content: [display ad], <I>Boston Globe</I>, January 21, 1973, p. A6.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
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: Desktop 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: 1986.0988.008
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.008
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Desktop
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case, keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (display material)
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content: metal (wiring material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.732 cm x 24.892 cm x 7.112 cm; 5 13/16 in x 9 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in