Re: Is this iCal for the Apple II??????

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Roger Johnstone wrote:

>Simon Williams wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:35:02 GMT "Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>
>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Found something really cool on Yahoo Japan...
>>>
>>>http://page3.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c22887291
>>>
>>>It's a Seiko DATAGRAPH 2001, a wrist watch that interfaces with TIME TRAX,
>a
>>>23-month scheduling program for the Apple II. It comes with a docking unit
>>>that connects to an Apple II (looks like the docking unit interfaces with
>>>the game port). When you want to sync with the Apple II, you just pop the
>>>wrist watch into the docking unit. I don't remember ever seeing anything
>>>like this back in my hay day. Looks like it was on the market around 1984
>to
>>>1986. It's currently on auction for $343.00 USD. Anyone ever used this
>>>thing? Any other devices for the Apple II similar to this?
>>>
>>>--- Bryan
>> 
>> 
>> A considerably less expensive source would be
>> http://www.applefritter.com/sell/datagraph.html
>> I've been coveting one of those units for some time now...
>
>I remember those!
>
>(Bryan, Applefritter will sell you a 5-pack for US$349.95 :-)
>
>The Applefritter article says they were originally sold for $500 each. I 
>remember them being advertised in one of the Apple II magazines, 
>probably in the late 1980s, at a much reduced price. They were one of 
>those things that everyone wanted but no one could afford.

Yes, I bought one then when the price was about $50.

I tried it out and it worked fine, but the screen had few characters,
and the watch weighed several times as much as a watch *should*
weigh.  So into the drawer it went, to be revisited at some point in
the future when I re-discover it.  ;-)

BTW, I also bought one of the watches that contains a TV remote
control, and stopped wearing it after a couple of weeks, too.  (But
not before I had a lot of fun playing tricks on people by surreptitiously
"remote controlling" their TVs.  ;-)

Come to think of it, I have some kind of "watch" thing--I also bought
an Accutron (and loved it until quartz), and one of Intel's Microma
LED watches.  And I still have all of them!

-michael

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