Sharp EL-8133 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1978-1979
name: label: maker
content: Sharp Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This thin handheld electronic calculator has a metal case and twenty-four plastic rectangular keys. These include ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a % key, four arithmetic function keys, an on/clear key, a clear entry key, a square root key, clear/clear total key, and four memory keys. An on/off switch is at the top left of the keyboard. Text to the right of this reads: SHARP (/) ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR. Behind the switch and this mark is an eight-digit LCD display. A mark at the base of the front of the calculator reads: SHARP ELSI MATE (/) EL-8133.
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content: At the base of the back of the calculator is a compartment for two squat cylindrical silver oxide batteries. A sticker on the back reads: 88422037. Text molded into the back reads in part: ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR (/) EL-8133. It also reads: SHARP CORPORATION (/) MADE IN KOREA BM.
label: Description
content: The calculator fits into a black plastic wallet. Also in the wallet are an instruction manual, a pad of paper, a sheet of instructions for ordering memo pad refills, and a sheet warning that the display is of glass. It reads in part: “Do not put your calculator in the back pocket of your pants as it may be damaged when you sit down.” The wallet, in turn, fits into a cardboard box marked at one end: SHARP (/) EL-8133. A price tag on the box reads in part: $17.95.
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, May 14, 1978, p. K4. Calculator selling for $17.95.
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, August 10, 1979, p. 13. Calculator selling for $14.95.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Korea
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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: 1986.0988.272
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.272
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; wallet material)
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content: metal (case material)
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content: glass (display material)
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content: paper (documentation material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 5 in; .9525 cm x 7.3025 cm x 12.7 cm