Litronix 2260 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1974-1976
name: label: maker
content: Litronix
notes: label: Description
content: This Litronix 2260 handheld electronic calculator has a light tan plastic case and twenty-five rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a pi key, four arithmetic function keys, and a total key. The top row of the keyboard also has a clear/on key, an off key, and two parentheses keys. The leftmost column of keys includes exponential, square, square root and change sign keys. The display cover is missing from above the eight-digit display, and there is no mark behind this. A socket for the power adapter is along the right edge.
label: Description
content: A battery compartment for three batteries is on the back. A large sticker below it reads in part: Litronix 2260 (/) 4 VDC 300MW Serial No. 49160. It also reads in part: Litronix, Inc., Cupertino, CA. Assembled in Malaysia. The right edge of this sticker reads: Property of D. Matteo.
label: Description
content: The calculator has a brown leather or imitation leather case with a metal snap.
label: Description
content: Advertisements give prices for the calculator ranging from $69.95 initially down to $39.95 in 1976.
label: Description
content: For further information about Litronix, see 1986.0988.253. Compare 1986.0988.067.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, December 7, 1974, p. C4. New Litronix 2260 available for $69.95.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, January 4, 1976, p. OC_B9. Litronix 1101P selling for $19.95. Litronix 2260 offered for $39.95.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Malaysia
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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: 1986.0988.302
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.302
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry; snap material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; carrying case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 in x 6 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 7.62 cm x 16.51 cm