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The HP-01 (2009)
- smcl 8y agoObligitary Techmoan link if you want to see a recent-ish video of this watch in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQrsSEaZkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQrsSEaZkI
- tempodox 8y agoEven if the Apple Watch flew to the Moon and back all on its own, it would only be half as cool as this starship commander's watch. Did James T. Kirk wear one of these?
- rbanffy 8y agoThey had wrist communicators in TMP.
- DannyB2 8y agoI remember seeing the HP-01 in BYTE. Sorry I don't remember which one off hand. But old BYTE magazines are like a trip back in time. The tech was shockingly primitive. Download old BYTE magazines from here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm Or higher quality scans here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine Or Popular Electronics: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Gui... Creative Computing: https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
- rbanffy 8y agoBYTE and Creative Computing are what made me fall in love with computing.
- SomeHacker44 8y agoI love my HP-01. It is very fun to wear and use. Sometimes it gets comments. Unfortunately I cannot read it without my reading (or progressive) glasses anymore! For that, a Seiko Astron or Citizen works; angles are easier to read without glasses.
- egorfine 8y agoThis is my dream watch. Absolutely. Too expensive though :(
- anonu 8y agoThe internet and eBay have ruined watch collecting... Especially if you're trying to get things on a budget. One article or blog post and it's over...
- apostacy 8y agoVintage computing used to be fun because it was cheap. Not too long ago exotic computers were sold for their scrap metal prices. It is still unbelievable to me to see a cigarette stained 386 selling for $500.
- grkvlt 8y agoOR... the Internet and eBay have made watch collecting accessible and broken down a lot of the barriers to entry that used to exist, and were jealously guarded by gatekeepers. Yes, the likelihood is that most collectible watches now cost more, but the prices are probably much closer to a far value for the seller as well as the buyer due to the lessening of the huge information asymmetry that used to exist. Now, the watch you found in grandpa's attic when looking through his estate after he died can be researched and priced accurately using the Internet, and it becomes much harder for unscrupulous dealers to obtain it for peanuts. > "Oh, these Rolex Milgauss watches with a certificate showing it was presented to your grandpa while he worked at CERN? [0] Yeah, there are loads and loads of them floating about, sorry, they're really common. If it was new, could be worth about five or six thousand pounds [1] but this is old, used and pretty well worn so probably only worth a couple of thousand quid, but I'll take it off your hands for GBP 2500.00 just to be nice, ok?" 0. https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/christies-watches-online-play-time/rolex-milgauss-cern-dial-ref-1019-68/62180 https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/christies-watches-online-... - Estimate was from 10K to 14K and sold for GBP 17000.00 1. https://www.rolex.com/watches/milgauss/m116400gv-0002.html https://www.rolex.com/watches/milgauss/m116400gv-0002.html - Brand new from Rolex is GBP 6300.00
- apostacy 8y ago
- howard941 8y agoI had one of these, of course it's many years lost, just like the stylus appears to be lost from the watch in the article.