21 May
2009
21 May
'09
10:16 a.m.
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 05:03 -0300, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Chuck, you made me remember my first digital clock
I was very young, about 4 or 5 years old (I'll be 35 in 3 days) and it
was a white plastic watch with a red face and very tiny red numbers that
lighted only with a press of a buttom. I remember clearly it was made by
texas instruments. I'd love to have one of these again, but I think with
this new wave of "everything vintage", it must be very expensive (and rare!)
these days... :o(
Stop the press!!! Here it is:
http://www.ledwatches.net/photo-pages/texas-instruments3.htm
I had the white one :o)
A friend of mine had the black one. I remember him showing my Dad and I
it, as we sat and fiddled with CB radios out in the back field. Wow,
technology has moved on... (just comparing a ?100-in-late-70s-money
4-watt CB radio the size of two bricks that guzzled AA nicads with my
?15 5-watt 70cm handheld the size of an espresso cup)
Gordon
National Semiconductor actually made calculators back
in the 1970s - I
used to have one maybe 20 years ago, but it is long gone. They also
made a line of plug compatible S/370 mainframes, as well.
As well as watches and
video games. I still have an NSC watch
(nonfunctioning) and I recall giving a Pong game to my brother's
family as a gift back then.