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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: High Teck Watches
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:26:27 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <ajb.727986469@hela.iti.org> ajb@iti.org (Al Boehnlein) writes:
- >I am currently looking for a new wrist watch. My old one (discontinued Casio
- >fx70) had a scienctific calculator, a programers calculator, alarms,
- >stopwatch ect. I would like something like it, or possibly one of the new
- >data bank type calculators, hopefully with upload/download capabilities.
- >They got some really neat toys out there these days.
- >
- >Anybody have a favorite wrist watch out there?, Any Ideas?
-
- I've got a Casio CFX-200, it's several years old and is now quite beat
- up (missing keycaps, cracked crystal, worn chrome). The watch has a
- scientific calculator with exponential notation, a memory, three
- constants, assorted metric<->english conversion, transcendentals and
- others. In the past few years mostlly all I've seen are rather limited
- data bank calculators. There is one data bank watch with a serial port
- that is sold by Mac Warehouse. It comes with a Macintosh serial cable
- and software. It displays a couple lines of text at a time out of
- perhaps a few dozen pages. It apparently can only receive data, not
- send, and has no user input. Changing any data in the watch means
- downloading the entire dataset again. Some company did sell a wrist
- computer years ago with an optional external keyboard but I haven't
- heard about it since. I've given up getting a wrist computer and now I
- use an HP-95LX. I haven't seen really nifty digital watches for a long
- time. Even the analog watches are pretty dull, although a few do have
- a simple angular sliderule.
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