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Egon, My everyday wrist watch is a Timex "Iron Man" with an aftermarket strap called "THE STRAP" simple all black Velcro. The velcro is about ready to fall apart from wear and the big bezel on the watch has been missing in action for a year. Consequently some of the buttons are gone/inop. But, like you, I don't use all the "FEATURES" so I don't need all those buttons. The part that I like is the phone number storage and display. I can scroll through about 50 phone numbers in alphabetic o=rder by the names I entered. The watch came with a computer disk with a database program for organizing phone numbers and selecting all sorts of "features" on the watch. Then when you have everything the way you want it on the computer you transmit the data to the watch. The watch has a photodiode rcvr and the program makes a series of flashing bar code lookinig data representations on the screen. You aim the watch at the screen and it gets the message.

I bought a newer version and wear it when my clunker just looks too shabby. The new one doesn't do optical linkup, it has a cable that grabs onto the watch for a direct connection. I was some dissapointed when I opened the box and found that it was not the same.... oh well... progress. The plus is that you don't have to try to enter data on the watch but instead use the convenience of the computer. Decades ago there were watches that not only held phone numbers but would output the touchtones to dial the numbers. Unfortunately mine doesn't do that.

My first electric Timex was so crude that you could hear it in a quiet room... clicka clicka thunk, clicka clicka thunk, etc. If I took it off and put it on a hard surface it would rock back and forth in reaction to the motioin of the clunky guts. I used to takek it off at night (not my normal routine) because it was so loud. It just ran and ran and ran. Eventually contact with me corroded the cheap cast main piece until there was a leak path opening up around the stainless steel back. I gave it to a guy who epoxied it and wore it for many years.

My current clock "situation" is a grand father clock that likes to stop at 11:23 PM. IF I start it in the morning it runs all day but the next morning it will stopped at 11:23. It has been suggested that the moon dial is dragging but I don't know. It ran perfectly till it was padded and packed away. Then 5-6 yrs later when unpacked it has this problem. The only damage in transit and storage was an itsy bitsy screw fell out of the dial but I found it at the bottom of the pendulum chamber and put it back in. (I don't really know when the screw fell out, just when I noticed it.)

Out favorite clock is one we use against professional psychological advice. It is an "atomic" projector clock that puts the time and temps on the far wall of the bedroom in big "wife doesn't need glasses" size type. The projector uses a red LED so it doesn't disturb the night vision so much. It alternates the indoor and outdoor temp and for some reason we really like knowing what the temps are doing and feel deprived when for some reason don't know. These were available at Walgreens drugstore for $19.95.

Pat

"I'm not from your planet, monkey boy!"

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