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Having one Casio databank on my wrist while being a child was one of the things that always amazed me and pushed me to electronics and computers. How could tho
by woliveirajr 10y ago
Having one Casio databank on my wrist while being a child was one of the things that always amazed me and pushed me to electronics and computers.
How could those watches do calculations and store phone numbers on a so small thing? And being 7-years old, I didn't even have phone numbers to store on it...
- partisan 10y agoI received several of these as gifts throughout my youth. I had almost completely forgotten about these and this website brought back good memories. They seemed like a little slice of science fiction, especially the ones that would light up with a press of a button giving off that cool blue light. I wonder if kids nowadays have a sense of wonder from the devices they have or see. Growing up, we had a variety of single use devices which allowed us to be amazed when the next device came along. Nowadays, the devices all roll into one little palm sized device so what is left to be suprised about?
- Patrick_Devine 10y agoYes, they have a sense of wonder. It's innate. My kids constantly want to learn how things work.
- digi_owl 10y agoI keep using a TI Chronos that seems like a spiritual successor of this. Two segmented diplays, one 4 digits, one 5, and various sensors (sadly not a compass) all hooked up to a microcontroller.
- SuperPaintMan 10y agoAmazing little toy to play with and write code for the Chronos is. Recommend for anyone looking for something in the same vein as these Seiko watches. Lost mine about a year ago though. Never did anything sophisticated with it, but I loaded a open source OS onto it and made the thing beep every five minutes. To this day my hairs still stick up on end about every five damn minutes.