BOTGA Hardware Collection

I am sure that I didn’t purchase this, I think it was inherited from my grandparents. My grandfather called Montgomery Ward ‘Monkey Wards’

According to the Smithsonian–

This handheld electronic calculator has a tan plastic case and seventeen rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys and a decimal point key, it has a clear entry/clear key, four arithmetic function keys, and a total key. On the left on the copper-colored keyboard is an on/off switch. Text next to the switch reads: MONTGOMERY (/) WARD. Behind the keyboard is an eight-digit LED display. A compartment for a battery opens on the top of the back.

A jack for a power adapter is on the left side.

A sticker on the back gives instructions. Text at the top reads: WARDS P-50. Text at the bottom reads: Distributed by Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. (/) Chicago, Illinois 60607 (/) Model No. DNS-8660A (/) Made in U.S.A. Serial No. 57X-152856.

Compare Novus 850 (1986.0988.306). The calculator was made for Montgomery Ward by National Semiconductor Corporation.

References:

Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm, The Complete Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators, Tustin, CA: Wilson/Barnett, 1997, p. 102.

Online Datamath Calculator Museum, accessed August 29, 2014.