National Semiconductor 835 Handheld Electronic Calculator
date: label: date made
content: 1977-1980
name: label: maker
content: National Semiconductor Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This handheld electronic calculator has a dark brown plastic case and twenty-three rectangular plastic keys. These include ten digit keys, a clear entry/clear key, a decimal point key, four arithmetic function keys, a total key, four memory keys, a % key, and a square root key. Left of the top row of keys is an on/off switch. A mark above it reads: 835. A mark to the right of this mark reads: National (/) Semiconductor.
label: Description
content: Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit LED display. A jack for an adapter is on the left side. The back of the calculator has a compartment for a battery. Text at the bottom of the back reads: MADE IN HONG KONG.
label: Description
content: Compare to Novus 835 (1986.0988.276), which was also made by National Semiconductor. Also see the National Semiconductor 835A (1986.0988.230).
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content: References:
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content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, August 28, 1977, p. U1_1. Refers to an 835 calculator by National Semiconductor. Color scheme is of the National Semiconductor 835, not the Novus 835.
label: Description
content: [Advertisement], <I>Chicago Tribune</I>, March 9, 1980, p. W_A15. The add lists the calculator as an $8.95 value on sale for $3.99. The keyboard shown is all one color.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Hong Kong
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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: 1986.0988.229
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0988.229
label: accession number
content: 1986.0988
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electronic calculator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (keys; case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (circuitry material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.6675 cm x 13.97 cm