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- From: rdb@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Benedict)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: High Teck Watches
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:49:32 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: rdb@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Benedict)
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- In a previous article, anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) says:
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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.
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- Some company did sell a wrist
- >computer years ago with an optional external keyboard but I haven't
- >heard about it since.
-
- ^^^
- If memory serves me I believe this was
- by Sieko. I think Sharper Image sold it
- though I am not sure if they still do.
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- 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.
- >--
- ><-:(= Anthony Stieber anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
- >
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- Robert D. Benedict Case Western Reserve University
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