Jay has vivid memories of this one. In 1982, his local K-Mart store was closing out the KMC2000 calculator/clock combo. They were marked down to $4 from an original price of about $25 and he wanted this one bad. But would Jay’s mom give him an advance on his lawn mowing allowance? Newoooooooooooooooooooooooo! Instead, Jay had to wait about fifteen years to find this used model for…yes, $4! Still love you, mom 🙂
From the distinguished lineage of the Casio pocket clock/calculators comes the JQ-100 for your desktop. Yellow LCD is indicative of a display of the early filtered variety. Neat monthly calendar feature and with alarm and stopwatch.
We know little about Zykkor, except that they manufactured camera equipment and little calculators like these. This little TC-1 is as cute as it is functional giving you the requisite calculating power and full clock and alarm options to boot. We have had a few of these for sale in black and red but they’re gone.
Very cool calculator by Lloyd’s that has two displays, one for time & alarm, the other for computation output. The audible alarm is driven by a module that you plug into the underside of the unit that also hold batteries for power. Ambitious design!
By the early 80’s, nearly every electronics company had entered the calculator market, even audio giant like Toshiba. This little one surfaced in 1982 or so. Tiny calculator clock combo. Dig the forest & olive green color combination!
Litton Industries’ Monroe calculator line is long and diverse–their operations started in the US, but by the 1970s, had moved overseas. This little pocket multi-function model, the M-112 was manufactured in Japan probably around 1982. In addition to clock functions there’s a stopwatch, too.
Sure, we knew Pierre Cardin produced pants, but calculators too? This is their all-in-one device, assumedly marketed for busy travelling people. It combines a clock, calculator and AM/FM radio into one handy unit! There’s a telescopic antenna and the clock is armed with an alarm.
Here’s Sanyo’s all-in-one calculator, the RPM6950: a calculator, clock, and an AM/FM radio. It’s part of the fancy Horizon Collection, a product line that consisted of sleek and innovative products. Don’t be deceived by the design, the tuning is not digital. There’s a small dial on the top for that.
Anyone ever see one of these in real life? This rates up there with Panasonic’s RX-7700 as one of the coolest systems of all time. The RX-7000 was probably marketed to the audiophile crowd, as it bore wood grain side panels and controls that resembled those of a home receiver. The cassette featured logic access and, oh my, is that a wired remote control on the left? The $700 price tag would be a steal in today’s market. Click here to calculate what $700 in 1981 is worth today. Thanks, Tracy West for providing this gorgeous photo!
In our opinion, the finest boombox ever made by Toshiba was the RT-S931. It offered feature-touch cassette buttons, which detached to double as a wireless remote control. Toshiba’s music search system was called MQJS, or Music Quick Jump Song Selector.