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Is this from someone here?
Message #1 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 28 Apr 2010, 11:59 p.m.

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)

      
Re: Is this from someone here?
Message #2 Posted by db (martinez, ca.) on 29 Apr 2010, 12:24 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

hi luiz; i have no idea who it is but did you notice that his cake is in RPN mode. Sweet. -db

            
Re: Is this from someone here?
Message #3 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 29 Apr 2010, 2:06 a.m.,
in response to message #2 by db (martinez, ca.)

Definitely...

Cheers!

      
You might want to check this site
Message #4 Posted by Frank Boehm (Germany) on 29 Apr 2010, 4:12 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

Tokyo Flash
I'm almost certain you will find this kind of watch there 8)

            
Re: You might want to check this site
Message #5 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 29 Apr 2010, 5:46 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Frank Boehm (Germany)

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.

                  
Re: You might want to check this site
Message #6 Posted by Martin Pinckney on 29 Apr 2010, 12:17 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

My uncle used to call these "Wonder Watches."

You look at them and wonder what time it is...

                        
LOL!!! <8^D (N.T.)
Message #7 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 29 Apr 2010, 12:34 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Martin Pinckney

...

Edited: 29 Apr 2010, 12:36 p.m.

                        
Re: You might want to check this site
Message #8 Posted by Gordon Strickland on 29 Apr 2010, 2:03 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Martin Pinckney

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?"

                        
Wondering the HP way
Message #9 Posted by Frank Boehm (Germany) on 30 Apr 2010, 4:09 a.m.,
in response to message #6 by Martin Pinckney

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 :)

      
Re: Is this from someone here?
Message #10 Posted by BruceH on 29 Apr 2010, 2:46 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

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.

            
Re: Is this from someone here?
Message #11 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 29 Apr 2010, 3:24 p.m.,
in response to message #10 by BruceH

My thoughts, too...

      
Re: Is this from someone here?
Message #12 Posted by Tim Wessman on 29 Apr 2010, 3:49 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

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

            
Re: Is this from someone here?
Message #13 Posted by geoff quickfall on 30 Apr 2010, 7:09 p.m.,
in response to message #12 by Tim Wessman

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!)):

My 74 RA21 ground up restoration

Edited: 30 Apr 2010, 7:37 p.m.

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