National Class 2000 Bookkeeping Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is a relatively late example of an NCR Class 2000 accounting machine built for department store use. NCR had introduced the Class 2000 as a way to register several totals in 1921. From the mid-1950s, it was gradually be replaced by electronic accounting machines.
label: Description
content: The machine has a ferrous metal case and metal mechanism. The printing mechanism is at the front left and has space to print two forms simultaneously. Paper is in one of these spaces. A set of three rows of numbered keys at the front left determines the line on which a number will print on a form. These keys are numbered from 1 to 21.
label: Description
content: The back part of the case is rounded like a cash register. It has a set of six columns of plastic keys on the right, which are designed for entering identification numbers. The leftmost column is lettered from A to K (top to bottom). The five other columns have the digit keys from 0 to 9, going up. At the center left are six columns of keys for entering numbers, with nine keys in each column. Between these sets of keys are a motor bar, a lever that can be set according to the operation to be performed, and three partial columns of function keys. Left of the digit keys are two columns showing the results accumulated in several different registers. The machine has a keyhole with key.The electric cord is at the back.
label: Description
content: A mark at the center front reads: National. A tag at the front left reads: 6101190 (/) A2146 (64UP). A mark on the center front at the base reads: The National Cash Register Co. (/) DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A.
label: Description
content: This machine was used at the Lansburgh department store in downtown Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.333942.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Bookkeeping Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City Stores Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.334911
label: catalog number
content: 334911
label: maker number
content: 6101190
label: accession number
content: 314157
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.9 cm x 80.5 cm x 63.4 cm; 14 17/32 in x 31 11/16 in x 24 31/32 in