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  1. Humptymarsbar Feb 21, 2018

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    Mods, please delete if it offends.
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    1970's from the USA.
     
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  2. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 21, 2018

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    History. What’s not to like.
     
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  3. Humptymarsbar Feb 21, 2018

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    Thank you Sir.
    Not everyone's cup of tea.;)
     
  4. Alpha Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector Feb 21, 2018

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    Certainly not offended in any way, all part and parcel of this crazy hobby/obsession we all enjoy.
     
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  5. Waltesefalcon Feb 21, 2018

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    Gah! My eyes! It's actually kind of cool in a funky seventies sort of way. Does it not read the time all of the time?
     
  6. Foo2rama Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can. Feb 21, 2018

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    Generally these early ones did not to save battery power if I remember correctly.
     
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  7. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Feb 21, 2018

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    Memories of my dad’s old HP35
     
  8. Waltesefalcon Feb 21, 2018

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    Thanks, I can't remember back that far.
     
  9. ClarendonVintage Feb 21, 2018

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    Thought I was looking at a rado at first but
     
  10. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Feb 21, 2018

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    You can probably find more information on CompuChron here:

    http://www.newdwf.com/viewforum.php?f=82

    From what little I could find out, CompuChron was owned by Hughes Electronics, but that watch was made in Japan for them.

    Hope this helps,
    gatorcpa
     
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  11. Canuck Feb 21, 2018

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    These old LEDs were murder on batteries. You were lucky to get a few months out of the cells. Sometimes, even less. Yes, cells! There were two. They displayed the time only when needed it, and they were next to impossible to read in broad daylight. Nest, anyway. I have two LEDs myself.
     
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  12. IDXM Feb 22, 2018

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    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
     
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  14. Humptymarsbar Feb 23, 2018

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    I like it as a bit of fun :thumbsup:;)
     
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  15. larryganz The cable guy Feb 23, 2018

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    That's pretty cool. My oldest quartz is this old National Semiconductor from the 1970's.

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