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From: achowe@watmsg.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: An Idea That I had
Message-ID: <17901@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 88 15:06:23 GMT
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In article <91@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <8803210203.AA26500@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>, juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) writes:
>< =====================================================================
>< | Typical conversation on comp.[atari|amiga|mac].*		    |
>< =====================================================================
>< My watch is better than yours.  It has multitasking, windows and
>< plays Old macdonald has a farm.  I will not listen to reason, of
>< course your watch is not as good as mine, in fact you are
>< silly for having bought it.  Sell it and buy my kind.
><    o /
>< ====X================================================================
><    o \
>< John W. Buchanan                  Dynamic Graphics Project
>
>But John, my watch *DOES* have windows, and it does multi-tasking too!
>(It has 5 alarms, a countdown timer, a stopwatch, day/date/year, etc).
>Now, if I could only get it to sing "Old MacDonald," I'd be in watch
>heaven.   :-O
>
>	Wes Peters

Well while we're at it...

My watch is *NOT* digital so will survive an EMF blast and it does
*NOT* have windows but a csh (multi-tasking is an optional extra).
It also supports...

o regular hour & minute hand
o 24 hr hand
o 12 hr stop-watch
o day / date (days are even written in French)
o tachometer gauge
o can endure 200m (!!!) water depth and 6 g's
o self-winding (auto-boot feature)
o scratch proof glass
o pretty glow-in-the-dark arms and dots
o AND the tick sound has a distinctive yodel to it

Anyway, digital watches are for USERs. Real programmers... :)

"Why are people born, why do people die, why do they spend so much
of the intervining time wearing digital watches?"
  - Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy