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   Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 11:00:50 JST Nazo

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   @ai6yr @TonyJWells @astraleureka @va3wft There seems to be just a whole retro scene built up around watches like these. It's less visible, but I ran into it a bit when I looked into some stuff like those watches with the little radios built in. (If you really want to see something neat, look those up!)

   There was even one (by Casio I think even) that had a TV. Sort of.

   Another interesting model from that time period can connect to a computer, but as far as I could tell all it really did was store strings. Nothing nice like some sort of programming or anything.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 11:00:51 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @TonyJWells @astraleureka @va3wft all this watch talk made me look in the box-of-stuff-to-ebay-or-toss here in my office, LOL

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 11:00:51 JST AI6YR Ben

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @TonyJWells @astraleureka @va3wft Apparently that is a Casio SA-55

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     Tony Wells (tonyjwells@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 11:00:52 JST Tony Wells

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @astraleureka @va3wft @ai6yr

     Heavy alarm and backlight would eat battery, as would the hourly chirp that many people couldn't work out how to turn off!

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 11:00:52 JST Nazo

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     @TonyJWells @astraleureka @va3wft @ai6yr I actually turned on the hourly chime (on purpose for regularity and easier keeping up with time in general) and it still lasted forever with that on, lol.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 11:00:53 JST Nazo

     • AI6YR Ben
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     @astraleureka @TonyJWells @va3wft @ai6yr Agreed. Pretty much every Casio watch of that entire general time period was reliable, kept good time, and ran forever with just the original battery.

     I never had to replace the battery in any of my own, so now I start to wonder. Could it be that it was more an issue of batteries eventually degrading and leaking than them running out that lead to replacements? I guess to some extent it could depend on alarm usage (if you used a bunch of alarms instead of once a day or something) but all in all they really lasted forever on those things...