I already have a watch that suits meow needs.

@discatte ready for TRANSMIT

@jmac *modulates meows*

@discatte Oh wow, this thing is neat as heck. I had to look it up. I thought it would have to be something like 1989 or so, but no... Apparently 1983???

@nazokiyoubinbou yeah they did it right, and elegantly really early on!

100 nerd points if you know what the ⚡ symbol means.

@discatte Super impressive considering the actual tech level of the time.

This sort of thing is all before my time, but I've been learning a lot about some of the tech of that sort of time period out of curiosity lately and despite its limitations this is pretty neat. Especially managing to set up a magnetic induction for transferring the data.

I couldn't find anything about it connecting to computers though. Still, your alt text pretty much says it all. Basically the same as the keyboard, just a serial connection.

I suppose all it could do was text?

@nazokiyoubinbou internally its just pages of unstructured text, so you can 'sync' whatever into that. addresses, schedules, etc

@discatte Too bad it doesn't do more than that. Especially with only 2000 characters of storage.

Still, for 1983 this is hecking neat.

@nazokiyoubinbou it is capable of running compiled programs too, which would have required a rare 8bit computer, but folks have learned how to make things for it and upload.

When you look at a seiko watch face, it will have a lightning bolt, or a small hurricane twist. Those are the two divisions that made watches. Daini and Suwa. They would later evolve into things you know like sII and Epson.

@discatte represent

@joe dear diary.. today I'm really gonna do it.

really love those gold memo diaries <3 nice kana keyboard too!

It will look great on your wrist in the penthouse office suite of compudyne systems.

@discatte is this the one that plugged on to a keyboard for data entry? I saw that in a shop window about 42 years ago and though it was the most unbelievably cool thing ever.

@benjohn yep! and it talks to the keyboard wirelessly! there is an induction coil in both.

@discatte Oops. I've got the song from the Meow Mix advert in my head now :-)

@discatte
FTW the lyrics go
Meow meow meow meow,
meow meow meow meow,
meow meow meow meow,
meow meow meow meow.
...

@RupertReynolds Ah good! I wasn't quite sure how the second verse went.

newer smart watches cant replicate is that delicious pixel gap.

also if you look closely its not a graphic display, its 10x4 characters each which are 5x7 pixels.

@discatte
Can it run bad apple

@discatte Take a look at Bangle.js2. That display is quite high resolution, and reflective. It can emulate pixel gaps, at least one tamagotchi emulator used that to produce interesting effects.

@pavel those are neat, but for something like this you want around 400 pixels to have the gap look reasonable

@ozzelot it has.. 2kilobytes of storage 😅

@discatte That's... several frames. Not counting the playback routines. (Though if anything can be written for this, I'd assume it would be raw assembly.)