Lloyd's E680-3 Desktop Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1978
name: label: maker
content: Lloyd's Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: This lightweight, non-printing electronic calculator has an array of nine digit keys at the center with a zero bar and a decimal point key below these. On the right are arithmetic and clear keys. On the left are percentage, percent change, gross profit margin, item count, clear memory, recall memory, memory subtraction, and memory addition keys. A switch between a floating and a fixed decimal point, a constant switch, and a power switch are above the keyboard. Behind is a ten-digit vacuum fluorescent diode display. A cabinet has space for two D batteries. A jack for a cord is at the back, but there is no cord.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the machine reads: Lloyd’s Accumatic 680. A label on the back reads in part: LLOYD’S (/) Model No. E680-3 (/) Series: 260A. It also reads in part MADE IN TAIWAN. The interior of the calculator has a single circuit board which has a mark on the bottom that reads: 5212232. A mark on the top of the circuit board reads: CA2486-03 K1. The chip by Texas Instruments has a mark that reads: TMC1073NL (/) KSLP 7736. The “7736” indicates that the chip was made in the 36th week of 1977.
label: Description
content: Compare the Radio Shack EC-2001 (1986.0998.007) and Unisonic XL-101 (1986.0988.004). Radio Shack advertised the EC-2001 in American newspapers as early as 1978 and as late as 1985. For the power supply for this calculator, see 1986.0988.377.
label: Description
content: References:
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content: [advertisement], <I>Boston Globe</I>, December 5, 1978, p. 15.
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content: [advertisement], <I>New York Times</I>, March 21, 1985, p. A22.
label: Description
content: These advertisements are for the Radio Shack version of the calculator.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Taiwan
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Desktop 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: 1986.0988.006
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.006
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
label: Other Terms
content: electronic calculator; Desktop
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (case, keys material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (wiring material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (display material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.732 cm x 16.51 cm x 5.08 cm; 5 13/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 2 in