Re: Connecting a watch and Apple II

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Gregory Weston wrote:
> In article <489208f0$0$910$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>,
>  "Guillaume Tello" <houten.van@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I read that some vintage watches from Seiko had a kind of serial link to 
> > computers such as the Apple II. You could prepare data on the computer and 
> > send them to the watch.
> >
> > Has someone any informations on that?
> > Did someone use this system?
> >
> > The fact is that I will receive a Seiko UC-2000 + UC2200 keyboard and I'd 
> > like to know if some communication with the Apple was possible.
> >
> > Guillaume.
>
> I remember the ads. If I recall correctly, the synch happened by just 
> resting the watch on some kind of tilted podium. I don't think there was 
> actually an electrical connection between the watch and the computer 
> interface.

There was no metallic connection, but an electromagnetic connection.

The watch contains a coil that links inductively with a coil in the
platform that connects to the computer.

There is a Y2K problem with their software...

-michael

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