Teal 806 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1976
name: label: distributor
content: Teal Industries
label: maker
content: Tokyo Electronic Application Laboratory Ltd.
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a metal and plastic case with an array of twenty rectangular plastic keys with rounded corners. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a percentage key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, a clear key, a D key, and a DC key. Above the keys to the left is an on/off switch. Text behind this reads: Auto Constant. Behind this is an eight-digit green vacuum fluorescent display. Text above this reads: TEAL 806. A jack for a power adapter is along the front edge of the calculator.
label: Description
content: The back of the calculator has a compartment for two AA batteries. Below this is a sticker that reads in part: TEAL 806 (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. It also reads in part: NO 209340 (/) TEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. TORRANCE CALIF, 90502 (/) MADE IN JAPAN.
label: Description
content: TEAL calculators were made in Japan by Tokyo Electronic Application Laboratory Ltd.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Holland [Michigan] Evening Sentinel</I>, March 8, 1976, p. 17. Teal 806 calculator advertised as on sale for somewhat over $12.
label: Description
content: The calculator.org website (accessed December 1, 2014) says that the Teal 806 was introduced in 1975.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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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: 1986.0988.216
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.216
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case; keys; display cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (keyboard; jack; circuitry material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (sticker material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3 in x 4 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.62 cm x 12.065 cm