This handheld electronic calculator is on a key chain. It has a gold-colored metal case with an array of twenty-five metal keys and a metal chain. In addition to ten digit keys, a decimal point key, a total key, four arithmetic function keys, and four memory keys, it has a square root key, a percentage key, a clear entry key, an on/clear key, and an off key. A mark above the keys reads: ZYKKOR LC-244. Behind this is an eight-digit LCD display.
Zykkor was a Japanese manufacturer of optical lenses and other photographic products. In the 1980s it distributed a wide variety of electronic products.
A mark on the back reads: MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C. (/) FABRIQUE A TAIWAN R.D.C.
The calculator.org website gives a date of introduction of 1985 for this calculator.
References:
Calculator.org website, accessed July 8, 2015.
[Advertisement], New York Times, January 29, 1985, p. A7. Zykkor LC-220 (a different model calculator) advertised as on sale for $3.95.
MyCalcDB.free.fr website, accessed July 8, 2015.
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