From: gkwan@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Greg Kwan)
Subject: Re: Casio Databank Touch Screen Watches
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:45:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.231955.1841@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>In article <60570009@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> dclaar@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Doug Claar) writes:
>>>A friend of mine in college a few years back claimed to have seen (had?)
>>>a version of the DB in which the calculator included scientific and trigo-
>>>nometry functions!  That would be GREAT!  Has anybody seen any such animal?
>>>Can anyone tell me/us where to get it?
>
>I had one, too.  It died.  So I bought a new one... RIGHT BEFORE CASIO 
>DISCONTINUED THEM.  That was already some years back...

I have one, too.  I bought it ~3.5 years ago from Best for $19.95.

>I just remembered something... this watch had a BUG in it!  I remember that
>I had found a key combination that would totally garble the time display.
>If you hit the main fucntion button so it returned to "normal" display, it
>would be fine again.  But when you hit just the right key combination to
>start with, it would go through this bizarre pattern of garbage on the display
>and eventually settle down into a garbage pattern that alternated on every
>second.  Ha!  How many other people have discovered bugs in their wathces? :-)

(raising my hand) I've encountered this.

>It was a pretty obscure key combination... something like, select 2nd function
>scientific functions, go back to the time display, set the time, and hit
>something.  Almost impossible to do accidently.  I believe I stumbled into
>it when I was trying all sorts of combinations to turn off the !@#$ beeper...
>I just couldn't believe ther wouldn't be a way to turn it off!

"Almost impossible to do accidentally"?  Well, I was doing some stupid calcu-
lation last Sunday when I remembered that it was Daylight Savings Time.  So
I went to set the time and ...  At least I now know that it was the watch and
not my imagination.

>Back in high school when I this was the watch I wore, there weren`t yet
>enough people that I needed phone storage capability. :-)

Not the watch to impress the babes.  Try the 14K solid gold Rolex.  (and if
anyone's interested in trading one of those for the CFX-40, send email :-)

>>Unfortunately, it died. Finding no satisfaction at the local stores,
>>I called Casio directly. No joy--they stopped making that model 
>>several years ago. I guess not enough nerds#####people bought them.
>
>I tend to buy the nerd@@@@techie watches that Casio makes, and have noticed
>that it's pretty rare that I see someone else with the same model.  A lot
>of people in my ECE courses have some variation of the standard data bank
>watches, though; they seem to be getting pretty popular.

Casio did make great nerd!!!!techie watches.  I think they made a business
calculator version also.  IMHO though, the best calculator watch they made
had a touch screen that ordinarily just displayed the time/day/date (large
screen).  When you wanted to use the calculator, then the screen displayed
the keypad in LCD.  My brother had one, but it was stolen.  Anyone have an
extra?

greg