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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: High Teck Watches
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:24:26 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.162430.11933@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1777@stout.UUCP> gerard@STOUT.UUCP (Gerard van Draanen) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.150404.2221@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- >>... stuff on CFX-200 layout/discussion deleted...
- >
- >The model I have is a CFX-40
-
- I was wrong; I was calling a CFX-40 a CFX-200.
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- >So the options for High Tech. Watches must be ...
- >
- > Casio CFX-40
- Databank style case scientific calc. with normal means of selecting functions.
- > FX-70
- What's this?
- > CFX-200 (Two models were described)
- Nope, only one (I was wrong). MANY (24?) buttons, "scanning" method of
- selecting scientific functions.
- > DBX-1000 <== This one seems to me to have all the options
- > Discussion talks about multi-level alarm etc.
- >I like the possible options for the 'future DBX-2000' with phone dialer....
- >and have it Water Proof (till say.. 10 m. ... enaugh for most situations).
- ...and a scientific calculator and PC data link! :-)
- > Seiko DATA-2000
- > RC-5000 (Vest pocket Watch with matrix display...
- > used to be able to couple that to a PC like terminal...
- > The last Ad I saw about it must have been in '87, and
- > RC-7000 Which --me thinks-- was its follow-up)
- >
- >As far as I know the RC5000/7000 series have been discontinued.
- >
- >I also would like to keep up with current possibilities, but most shop owners
- >don't even have a model catalog anymore, since the models are changing so
- >rapidly.
- >Maybe we can reach Casio Development people ... just to keep us informed.
-
- Good idea.
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
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