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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: High Teck Watches
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 20:13:08 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <1k35umINNdoe@emmental.csv.warwick.ac.uk> phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott) writes:
-
- >Were you guys telling the truth about watch SCIENTIFIC calculators.
- >I think you weren't, but I'd like to beleive you were....
-
- We most certainly were. Here's what my Casio CFX-200 looks like:
-
- -------------------
- | INV F1 F2 EXE|
- light/sign change-> [|+---------------+|] <--divide
- ||1-26 TU||
- flush mounted set--> ||1 4 : 0 1 1 3||] <--multiply
- |+---------------+|
- calc mode/C [| [7] [8] [9] [0] |] <--subtract/M-
- | [4] [5] [6] [.] |
- stopwatch/alarm/CE [| [1] [2] [3] [+] |] <--equals/M+
- -------------------
- F1 cycles through DRG, pi, in, ft, mi, oz, lb, gal, K (constant), and (
- F2 cycles through sin, cos, tan, log, ln, 10^x, e^x, x^y, x^2, sqrt, 1/x, %
-
- The functions are written in tiny little letters around the crystal.
- The function cycling is a big pain, often I would overshoot a function
- and I'd have to go all the way around again. I wish they would have
- just used F1 and F2 as shift keys and put all the functions on the
- keypad instead.
-
- EXE executes the current selected function.
- INV inverts the current selected function, eg, in becomes cm, lb becomes kg.
- INV . (decimal point) allows input of exponent for scientific notation.
- The date in time mode (1-26) is a bitmapped region and shows the
- current selected function, pi actually shows the Greek letter, sqrt
- shows root symbol. The current day (TU) is a dual 7 segment display
- and is used for the exponent for scientific notation.
-
- This thing is several years old now, I've forgotten exactly when I got
- it. I expected even more powerful watches to be available by now,
- alas, they are not. I'd love a little Forth based wrist computer
- with perhaps 4KB RAM. Oh well.
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