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From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Digital Diary
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Date: 25 Jan 89 15:30:35 GMT
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In <3055@xyzzy.UUCP>, <throopw@xyzzy.UUCP> wrote:
>Does it have a built-in clock?  You see, I hate wristwatches, and
>am now using a quartz pocketwatch.  While I can get a wristwatch
>with a calculator, memo pad w/8K characters storage, and even
>phone autodialer, I can't seem to find the same thing packaged
>for pocket use, and with a PC interface for up/down-loading.  
>[...]
>Either it is packaged as a wristwatch instead of
>a pocketwatch and lacks an rs232 or other PC link, or it is
>packaged as a pocket device with PC link, but lacks a timeclock
>mode.  (Multiple tagged alarm times would be nice too, but
>nobody seems to have that in any packaging at all.)

You buy the wristwatch version of what you want. You drive over to a
jeweler or watchmaker, and you give them money. They convert the case
into a pocketwatch. You drive over and pick it up. Sounds easy to me.


aem
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