Lloyd’s Accumatic 306
The Lloyd’s Accumatic 306 is a calculator produced by Lloyd's Electronics, Inc. during the mid 1970s. It features a vacuum fluorescent display and expanded basic functionality.
| Other names | Model E306 |
|---|---|
| Type | Basic, with some advanced functions |
| Calculator | |
| Entry mode | Algebraic |
| Display type | Vacuum Fluorescent Display |
| Display size | 8 digits + sign |
| CPU | |
| Processor | Hitachi HD36360S |
| Programming | |
| Programming language(s) | N/A |
| Other | |
| Serial Numbers | 5J-138597 |
| Power supply | 4x AA, TS connector (tip positive) |
| Power consumption | 6V DC, 300mW |
FeaturesEdit
Unlike many simple basic calculators of the day, the Accumatic 306 provides the user with expanded functionality, specifically keys for using a stored constant for pi, squaring numbers, taking square roots, and for 1/x. The addition of these four keys provides much greater flexibility for the user and enables the calculation of more difficult equations while increasing user input speeds.
Internal designEdit
The overall board design of the calculator is very simple, cantered around the Hitachi HD36360S calculator ASIC, pared with a GICO GK320 spring over leaf keypad. A tube type vacuum fluorescent display module, the Futaba 9-CT-085L, is used in this model and provides 8 numerical digits along with a ninth digit to indicate sign and overflow.