Victor Tallymaster Mark V Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: Victor Comptometer Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This ten-key printing electric adding machine has a mustard-yellow plastic frame, with yellow plastic keys and a front handle. In addition to a block of nine number keys with a 0 bar below, it has a bar on the right, a place indicator above the keyboard, and two levers above this. The printing mechanism and motor are at the back. One can enter numbers of up to seven digits and print out eight-digit results. There is no paper tape installed, although a separate paper tape was received with this machine and 1991.0791.01. A white electric cord extends from the back of the machine. The top half of the case may be removed by releasing levers on each side.
label: Description
content: The machine is marked above the keyboard: Tallymaster (/) MARK V (/) BY VICTOR. The bottom of the machine is marked: MOD. 57 57 50 (/) SER. 3283-303.
label: Description
content: The machine was purchased by the donor for his collection. According to Darby, Victor introduced the Tallymaster as “a small, ten-key decorator-designed series of machine priced at a level that would make sense to husband and wife harassed by mounting home paperwork.”
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: E. Darby, <I>It All Adds Up: The Growth of Victor Comptometer Corporation</I>, Victor Comptometer Corporation, 1968, p. 172.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adding Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Rabinow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0791.02
label: maker number
content: 3283-303
label: accession number
content: 1991.0791
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0791.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.9 cm x 19.8 cm x 33 cm; 6 21/32 in x 7 25/32 in x 13 in