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[[>]] [[module Rate]] [[/>]] [[include component:image-block name=calculator.jpg |caption=SCP-2061, pictured during experimentation in 1981.|width=300px]] **Item #:** SCP-2061 **Object Class:** Safe **Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-2061 is kept in a standard containment locker at Site-76 in a secure container. Experimentation on and access to SCP-2061 is currently suspended indefinitely. Future experimentation with SCP-2061 is to be led by Foundation personnel employed as contractors by the Sharp Corporation. The three living 2061-Positive individuals are currently housed in Foundation-affiliated offsite inpatient psychiatric facilities, listed in Document 2061-C. Professional care at these facilities has been directed at avoiding visual contact between 2061-Positive individuals and objects capable of performing user-facing electronic mathematical calculations.[[footnote]]Since SCP-2061’s initial containment in 1979, this category of objects has dramatically expanded, including phones, PDAs and other objects listed in External Containment Guidelines.[[/footnote]] **Description:** SCP-2061 is a late-1970s Sharp ElsiMate EL-1185 electronic printing pocket calculator. SCP-2061 produces a compulsive effect in >99% of humans viewing it[[footnote]]Those able to be impacted by this compulsive urge are known as 2061-Susceptible individuals.[[/footnote]] in person, within a range of approximately 20 meters. This effect is nullified if there is any solid physical object between SCP-2061 and the viewer, even if the object is transparent. Windows, plastic bags and other clear objects have proven sufficient to prevent the manifestation of SCP-2061’s effect. The compulsive urge manifests as an irresistible desire to insert any object capable of performing user-facing electronic mathematical calculations into one’s own oral cavity, as deeply as possible. This urge manifests regardless of the harm caused by its being acted upon, and a number of fatalities and severe tracheal injuries were caused by SCP-2061 prior to the object’s transfer to SCP Foundation containment. SCP-2061’s cognitohazardous effect does not appear to manifest on any individuals who meet the following criteria: * **Criterion A:** Individuals who have received payment from the Sharp Corporation or any of its subsidiaries at any point in their lives * **Criterion B:** Individuals who have had unprotected sexual intercourse[[footnote]]The requirements of “unprotected sexual intercourse” for the spread of SCP-2061 immunity are currently not fully understood, beyond direct bodily fluid contact. Further study on these requirements is currently proposed by Foundation demographic researchers.[[/footnote]] with those meeting Criterion A. Individuals having sexual intercourse with those meeting Criterion B but not Criterion A do not have immunity from SCP-2061’s effects, in four known instances. Interviews with Sharp Corporation executives and investigation into corporate records has thus far unearthed no purposeful connection between Sharp and SCP-2061. **Recovery:** SCP-2061 was initially contained by the Trenton Police Department, after a family of five died of asphyxiation from inserting SCP-2061 into their oral cavities in turn. Initial responding officer R. Allen was able to insert SCP-2061 into a sealed evidence bag, as she met Criteria B for SCP-2061 immunity. This prevented discovery of SCP-2061’s anomalous effect until two investigators from the department died and one was hospitalized from its effects after removing SCP-2061 from its evidence bag, at which point the Foundation was notified. Initial press reports from the Trenton area were censored by Local Task Force 609-Semkath (“Super Bowl Three”). An excerpt of a //Trenton Times// article from 1976 regarding the first known 2061 event is reproduced below: [[=]] [[image newsarticle.png]] [[/=]] [[footnoteblock]] [[div class="footer-wikiwalk-nav"]] [[=]] << [[[SCP-2060]]] | SCP-2061 | [[[SCP-2062]]] >> [[/=]] [[/div]] [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box]] ===== > **Filename:** calculator.jpg > **Name:** Vintage Sharp Elsimate EL-1185 Electronic Printing Pocket Calculator, Made In Japan > **Author:** Joe Haupt > **License:** CC BY-SA 2.0 > **Source Link:** [[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51764518@N02/15290206795/in/photolist-pi9iM6-faWdY8-99K5ah-oqm3jG-pgmY1q-eiCDFe-6Q2Zcu-d3BCZS-ga7hiR-ga7qaG-ga7re5-hLSzwS-ga7wn1-asns8M-8pNCSr-ga7u79-ga8HMH-ga84gN-hLSvRq-hLSUsg-ovsMHn-d3CZS9-d4YrfU-4DyY3-ojtTWG-dEoGu8-9SLySD-d3yffQ-4BowWC-hanZak-hao4dv-oBpUSc-hLS7au-7zBNt9-hLSAzU-6M6pRz-6M6rVx-6JSXxg-5YpV5H-4foZQS-dCQSMG-5Dic6R-554H6L-9SnqSM-nLyZ4w-9qrN1j-bHHPfn-bHHPQt-aftJUM-df5vg8|Link]]] > **Filename:** newsarticle.png > **Author:** Kate McTiriss > **License:** CC BY-SA 3.0 > **Source Link:** [[[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2061|SCP Wiki]]] > **Derivative of:** > ------ > **Name:** View of new suburban brick and tile bungalow, Sydney Street Willoughby > **Author:** Powerhouse Museum > **License:** Public Domain > **Source Link:** [[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/24785917@N03/3507020450|Link]]] ===== [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box-end]]