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Post: #14
04-28-2010, 11:59 PM
 Hi, all; I was searching for digital wristwatches and found this interesting set of pictures and wondered about who is 'hp calculators' and if he/she is one of us or just a page created by the meeting organizational staff. By the way, I was searching for any information about this particular wristwatch. Anyone? Cheers. Luiz (Brazil) ▼
Post: #15
04-29-2010, 12:24 AM
hi luiz; i have no idea who it is but did you notice that his cake is in RPN mode. Sweet. -db
Post: #17
04-29-2010, 04:12 AM
Tokyo Flash ▼
Post: #18
04-29-2010, 05:46 AM
Halo, Frank; und danke schöen! I got almost that close, because I have seen some of the watches shown in the page you pointed me to. Matter of fact, the collection shown there has more choices than I found in other pages, thanks! Despite of the actual segmentation it uses, it seems to me that this one has the closest functionality to the one I posted about. You know, my first motivation to find more info about this watch was the picture of a conceptual watch I saw in one old issue of the Elektor magazine. The watch could be seen in a tech exposition held in German. It uses no numbers, just bars, and the system demands a bit of 'on-time' computing prior to conclude what time is the watch showing. This one, in the picture I posted, needs no computing, just direct reading, but surely the ones coming from Korea, China and Japan are twisting the concept of checking the time in a wristwatch. And did you see? They already have a two-page museum! Wow! The no-longer-being-built watches are as futuristic as the ones still being sold. Cheers. Luiz (Brazil)
Edited: 29 Apr 2010, 5:55 a.m. ▼
Post: #19
04-29-2010, 12:17 PM
My uncle used to call these "Wonder Watches."
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Post: #21
04-29-2010, 02:03 PM
If only we had either bigger forearms or higher resolution eyes! I am reminded of a New Yorker cartoon from many years ago, in which a person is glaring up at modernistic wall clock, with no numbers and hands nearly the same size. He turns to a colleague and snarls, "What the heck time is it?"
Post: #22
04-30-2010, 04:09 AM
Back in those days, I was the only kid with a HP28C in school. My chemistry teacher wanted to loan it for some calculations and returned it - completely frustrated - because he failed to do even a basic 1+1. He called the calculators "Mäusekino" (which probably translates to Mickey Mouse display), due to the amazing display, which was way ahead of his own LED calculator :)
Post: #23
04-29-2010, 02:46 PM
GIven that the very first picture in the photstream is in the cockpit of an airliner, I think that rather puts Geoff Quickfall in the frame.
Post: #25
04-29-2010, 03:49 PM
Actually, looking at what else is in there I suspect it is something someone in marketing created two years ago or so and has since been abandoned. I will look into it. . . TW ▼
Post: #26
04-30-2010, 07:09 PM
Wasn't me but thanks,but fun to know that someone else has an HP-01 in the cockpit. heres my airline shot
Cheers, Geoff P.S. I have been busy of late but have to get back to the book and an article on HP calculators! This has been my project for the last 9 weeks and for a few more (strickly off topic(my forum nom de plume is "Quicky" and check out my avatar!)):
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