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- From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: My new wristwatch
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182657.28574@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:26:57 GMT
- Sender: news@wdl.loral.com
- Reply-To: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com
- Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
- Lines: 53
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-
- I bought a new wristwatch Saturday. I drove up to the City and got it
- at one of those terrifying electronics stores in Chinatown. It's a
- Casio DBX-112, which means I now have a wristwatch that broadcasts at
- 120db in sixteen languages that I'm a geek -- please roll me.
-
- Here's what the face looks like:
-
- +--------------------------------------------------+
- | THIS _____________________________| |
- | NEXT _____________________________| |
- | WEEK S M T W T F S | |
- | ----------------------------------+------------- |
- | |
- | M O N ' 9 2 1 1 - 2 3 |
- | |
- | + +---+ +---+ +---+ + + +---+ |
- | | | | . | | | | | |
- | | | | . +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ |
- | | | | | | | | |
- | + +---+ +---+ +---+ + +---+ |
- | |
- +--------------------------------------------------+
-
- And that's just the LCD display without all the weirdness up. There's
- all kinds of silly labels on the body next to the buttons describing
- what the functions of each button is in all of its modes -- which is
- quite a lot. Here's a list of the modes:
-
- Standard timekeeping mode (12/24 hr format)
- Telephone memo pages (with password security)
- Schedule memo pages
- Four function calculator
- World timezone timekeeping mode (12/24 hr format, with
- daylight time)
- Daily alarm
- Countdown timer
- Stopwatch
-
- It's water resistant to 50m, which means I can't snorkel with it.
- Horrors. I'd draw picture of what the calculator keypad looks like,
- but I am not quite that overwhelmed with work -- suffice to say that
- no key has less than three symbols on it, and one or two has five.
-
- I'm waiting for the X Industries wristwatch that manages international
- currency rates and has a geigercounter built in.
-
-
- --
- +---------------------------+ ``I guess the government that robs its
- | J H Woodyatt | own people earns the future it is
- | bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com | preparing for itself.''
- +---------------------------+ -- Mark Twain
-