page_title: Casio Databank
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Casio Databank / History
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 福島第一原発事故の影響で、40KHz標準電波が停波の措置が取られてから2週間後の電波腕時計。福島局の電波のみ受信する時計（写真右）が5秒のずれを生じている。 English: A radio watch two weeks after the 40KHz standard radio wave was suspended due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. The clock that receives only the radio waves from the Fukushima station (pictured right) is off by 5 seconds.
context_page_description: Casio Databank is a series of digital watches manufactured by Casio. They allow data storage for names and telephone numbers, memos, and in late editions, email addresses; in addition to usually providing a calculator as well as the standard features of a digital watch.
context_section_description: The Databank CD-40 is the first Databank watch, debuting in 1983. It is one of the first digital watches developed in the 1980s that allows the user to store information, following a Pulsar model released in 1982.
  Over the years, watches in the Data Bank line gained a variety of features some of which were world firsts, starting with schedule and world time (introduced on the DBC-62), phone dialler (DBA-80/800 and DBA-100/900), Electroluminescent backlight, radium keypads, touch screen (VDB-1000 and VDB-200), voice recording capabilities (DBV-30/300 and DBC-V50/150) and atomic time reception functions (DBC-W150, FKT-2000 and FKT-300) in addition to data storage capabilities. Collaboration models of the Data Bank line were also made.
caption: A Casio WVA-200 radio controlled data bank (right)
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