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Seiko calculator from 1977, the year of release and along with a Citizen the first LCD calculator watch. The lightbulb backlight still works too.
That really is amazing your father bought that in 1977
My own - late - father brought me a basic pocket calculator in 1974 from his business trip to the US (he worked all his working life for Philips electronics as an engineer in their global research campus)
Nobody back home knew a thing like that even existed. It was extremely rudimentary though, to multiply 6 by 4 you would have to hit 6 then hit an enter button, then hit 4 and hit an enter button and then hit the multiply button. No decimal points either0 -
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Found this little lovely in a drawer the weekend, forgot I had it. Bought in 2006 I think in Argos for circa €50, done maybe 4/5 years daily use and all she needed was a new battery and she's flying again. Gonna use this as my daily in love it with it all over again and Argos still sell em new for €38.99 I checked yesterday :pac:
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Indeed! My dad built his Apple II from parts in 1980! Things have kept moving rapidly. It really is a wonderful time to be alive.
I think my parent's generation, born before WW2 have seen the biggest leap in technology in their lives. Most houses when they were born didn't have electricity, 30 years later man walked on the moon.
Sorry we're off topic, anyone got a watch pic?
Fencing with the BFK.
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No better tool for the job and in emergencies can be used as a hammer with little ill effect.
Fencing with the BFK.
On/off topic, re the 70's electronics and progress: What I'm wearing today.
My hunted down for years Girard Perregaux early quartz from 1971/2 with the extremely hard to find Chip dial. A schematic of the Motorola chip inside these movements that regulated the quartz. Here with its great great grandkids.
The interwebs held that these were only promo/advertising dials and not available in the wild, so the hunt was on. And at the time very few were looking at early quartz so my meagre budget was still in the game. Of the two I've found some background on, they were both presentations to folks working in Motorola at the time. They were probably too non traditional and gimmicky for the general market looking for an expensive "good" watch(1/3rd more than a steel Rolex sub) so sold in small numbers. Tiny numbers if the number of examples of these left today are any indication.
In 1971 vanishingly few items in the general public had "silicon chips" in them and they were extremely expensive. By 1981 they were everywhere. I remember the BBC TV programme "Tomorrows World" where the line "it has a silicon chip in it" became a meme by the early 80's. Today it's hard enough to find anything in our lives that doesn't. It's easy to forget the humble wristwatch was very much at the vanguard of that tech. In say 1975 what other everyday item had LCD/LED screens, key inputs, memory, quartz timing, battery driven(for over a year), even solar powered with integrated circuits in such a small wearable package. The laptop, pad, phone we're using on this forum owes the 70's wristwatch quite a bit.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Happy birthday, Walt!
I think my parent's generation, born before WW2 have seen the biggest leap in technology in their lives. Most houses when they were born didn't have electricity, 30 years later man walked on the moon.
Good point. My late parents were also born before WW2 (they grew up with war and hunger) and they made me watch the moon landing when I was 1 year old!
My father was big into computers and conservation of finite resources / renewable energy. He had PV on our garage roof in the 90s - 2 expensive panels totaling about 100W, costing a fortune. He passed away nearly 10 years ago but he would be amazed by smartphones and that pretty much everyone in the world has one :eek: and that his son now drives a full EV (charged to a large extent with wind), heats his water with the sun and has an ever expanding solar PV system on his various roofs0 -
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With my Bell-Matic off to the UK to be serviced,this will take its place.
Date is broken,was told a new movement is needed for €60.As a little challenge i looked at vintage watches for €60,found some interesting like Seiko 5 TV dials and some Russian watches.Just wondering what is the most interesting vintage watch for €60?.Knowing Wibbs would find a "Omeega Seamister" off some Spanish seller with box and papers for that.:D0 -
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