I just found out about this list and thought I'd mention that I've just
listed a Casio CFX-40 scientific calculator watch (circa 1985) on ebay
(
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4906266445).
I bought my original CFX-40 back when they were originally sold, and
started getting paranoid that it was going to die, so I bought some
spares from a guy who had a few of them. Well, my original watch is
still going strong, so I decided to unload one of the spares on ebay.
I love this watch! My wife once joked that if anything ever happened to
my CFX-40, she was worried that I'd off myself! Seriously, I told her
after getting the spares that she never had to worry about getting me a
Rolex or anything, because this is the only watch I would ever need, or
want. When the year 2000 rolled around I was a bit concerned that it
wouldn't properly deal with the calendar issues, but it never had any
problem with it. Those Japanese engineers really know their stuff.
I'm a programmer, and since this is the classic computer list, I thought
I'd mention that my first computer was a Compucolor II, an 8080-based
system with a color screen and built-in floppy drive and a whopping
32K(!) of memory. I think I kept it running for 9 months once without
it blowing up. It was great -- The thing normally died fairly
routinely, but I remember sitting at it one day and my mom came into the
room (I was in college) and I said something about how great it was that
the computer seemed to be getting more reliable. The VERY NEXT MORNING
I turned it on and there was a loud SNAP! and smoke came out of it.
There was no local repair center so I had to take it 180 miles to Kansas
City for service.
Any other Compucolor veterans out there?
-Tom
Received on Sat Jun 19 2004 - 00:41:05 BST