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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: High Teck Watches
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:04:03 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.150404.2221@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1k460kINNnvp@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- >In article <1k35umINNdoe@emmental.csv.warwick.ac.uk> phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott) writes:
- >
- >We most certainly were. Here's what my Casio CFX-200 looks like:
- >
- > -------------------
- > | INV F1 F2 EXE|
- >light/sign change-> [|+---------------+|] <--divide
- > ||1-26 TU||
- >flush mounted set--> ||1 4 : 0 1 1 3||] <--multiply
- > |+---------------+|
- >calc mode/C [| [7] [8] [9] [0] |] <--subtract/M-
- > | [4] [5] [6] [.] |
- >stopwatch/alarm/CE [| [1] [2] [3] [+] |] <--equals/M+
- > -------------------
- >F1 cycles through DRG, pi, in, ft, mi, oz, lb, gal, K (constant), and (
- >F2 cycles through sin, cos, tan, log, ln, 10^x, e^x, x^y, x^2, sqrt, 1/x, %
- >
- >The functions are written in tiny little letters around the crystal.
- >The function cycling is a big pain, often I would overshoot a function
- >and I'd have to go all the way around again. I wish they would have
- >just used F1 and F2 as shift keys and put all the functions on the
- >keypad instead.
-
- That's what they did in the next (and the only other, as far as I'm aware)
- scientific calculator watch they made. I still have that one at home, my
- CFX-200 died a long time ago. The advantages of the CFX-200 were that you
- could turn the !@#$ key beep off, and also that, since it had "real"
- buttons, entering keystrokes was more reliable.
-
- The CFX-200 definitely attracted a lot of attention back in high school...
- "Think your watch has enough buttons there, Joel?" Heh...
-
- In the next model, they threw out the metric conversions and threw in base
- conversions. I was pleased, although in binary they insisted on only
- letting you used signed 7 bit numbers!
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-
-