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You know, there was a period of time when I thought that there would be a market for a watch that not only stored telephone numbers, but could produce the tones to dial for you.
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Had this. We bought it off HSN, back in the day. It was a gift from my mom to make me feel a little less sad about our move. Loved it.
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A modern-retro option here for those with the DIY skills.
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There was a (very brief) period of time when I thought you could buy the Seiko watches James Bond had.
EON Productions really perfected product placement.
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It even had a full QWERTY keyboard, though that admittedly came in the form of a dock the wrist computer attached to. It could still be worn, hypothetically
I see where you’re goin’ with this!
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i’m pretty sure by the 80s people were only buying tone dialers to solder in crystals from radio shack to defraud payphones
(some teenagers get really into old music or films, i got into the dying art of “phreaking” as the dot com… boomed?)
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if you had perfect pitch, you could whistle it, which Joybubbles could and did. pretty cool.
I had a calculator watch for a while, I believe it was called a Casio Databank. you could use the numeric keypad as a calculator, but it could also input text, I guess like a dumb phone SMS but I don’t remember. I had some names and phone numbers stored which I thought was cool because my memory was terrible. it may have had other features but that’s the one I actually used as a ten-year-old
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Now I’m reminiscing the watches I had in my youth.
The number buttons weren’t particularly resiliant, made of a soft rubber. I remember a couple of them tearing off with use.
Q*bert was VERY playable
I don’t think this was the specific model of radio watch I had, but the design is fairly close. I remember running the mono-earphone wire up my sleeve and listening during class, just because I could.
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First 2 of those I fondly remember having as well!
Also I had this lovely Casio TS-1200:
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