Nobility Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
name: label: maker
content: Nobility
notes: label: Description
content: This battery-operated handheld electronic calculator has a brown plastic case, a metal keyboard, and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys, four arithmetic function keys, a decimal point key, and a total key; it has four memory keys, a square root key, a % key, a change sign key, a clear/ lear entry key, and a TM/CAL key. Behind the keys is a switch that may be set at CAL, TM, or SET. To the left of this is a mark that reads: Nobility, with a symbol for a registered trademark. No trademark found.
label: Description
content: Behind this, at an angle for easy viewing, is an LCD display. On the back is a compartment for two AA batteries. A sticker below this reads: Nobility (/) Electronic Calculator (/) DC 3V (/) Use 2x1.5V “AA” or “UM-3” Batteries (/) Made in Hong Kong.
label: Description
content: A mark below the total key reads: AJ. A mark below the addition key reads: TM.
label: Description
content: A credit card-sized calculator that uses the same Nobility logo is 1986.0988.263.
label: Description
content: Nobility is most probably a trade name, not a maker's name.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, November 27, 1980, p. SE13. A Nobility handheld calculator advertised, but not this one.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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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: 1986.0988.259
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.259
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (back of case; keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (front of case; trim; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 6.985 cm x 12.065 cm