There's a great pebble watchface replicating this: https://apps.repebble.com/51b5333a6dac43f5a308f87f
The first watch featuring computer functions
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://repebble.com/
Wearing the new Time 2 right now. It's as good as I remembered. So glad this story came around the way it did.
First time pebble owner, but I'm loving it. Not quite getting the advertised 30 days of battery life, but ~20 days is still more than good enough. It's also a really fun development platform
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#33This is cool, but do you know what was really cool? 2 years earlier, they made a TV watch: https://by.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/51.html
Not pictured: the walkman-sized box containing the rest of the TV that attached to the watch via a hefty umbilical cable.
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#34Seiko had a whole line microprocessors. I remember working with the S1C33 with a broken C compiler. We ended up using C macros and assembly. Never want to do that again.
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#35You hardly ever hear from Seiko, these days. I think they were brought up by Epson. In the 1980s, having a Seiko digital, was like having a Rolex (Or "Rolecks," if you are buying in Times Square).
I recall on a television program demonstrating counterfeit goods, they showed a watch with the "SETKO" imprint
I have a radio around here I bought in Malaysia from "Panesnic."
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not pictured: the walkman-sized box containing the rest of the TV that attached to the watch via a hefty umbilical cable.
Indeed. Pic: https://www.ablogtowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Seik...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recall on a television program demonstrating counterfeit goods, they showed a watch with the "SETKO" imprint
I have a radio around here I bought in Malaysia from "Panesnic."
For a short while in the 80s, little plastic or rubber face protectors were trendy. They had little vertical bumpers that covered the watch face from top to bottom.
That’s how my friend didn’t see the “A” and the “N” on his “ASEIKON” watch for a while.