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From: mcmullen@convexs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Info Wanted on Pulse Rate Gizmos
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 17:02:00 EST
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>I would like to buy (inexpensively if possible) a device for measuring and
>displaying my pulse rate while exercizing (e.g. using a rowing machine).
>Can anyone recommend a particular model?  DAK has a wrist watch type thing
>that supposedly does it - any comments?  A friend of mine has one which
>clips on to your ear and works moderately well but not perfectly, that's
>one of the reasons I'd like more information before rushing off to spend my
>99 cents  (8-).

>Thanks in advance for your input,

>Dick Jackson
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I don't know what you consider inexpensive, but for around 30 to 40 dollars
you can get a pulse recorder that fits on your fingertip.  Display is via
an LCD and it uses a button-sized AgO battery.   They are advertised
occasionally, in Smithsonian, New Yorker, etc. (You get the idea - upscale
consumers).    The only other place I have seen them is the Sharper
Image, store and catalogue, but that  was a while ago, about a year.

Try some of the bigger sporting goods stores in your area, not the 
conglamer-outlets, like Hermans.