History of the Calculator Watch Part 1 ; Pulsar, HP-01, Seiko, Citizen, Uranus
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The history of Calculator watches part 1, the golden years covering the earliest releases from 1975 through to the early 80's
3:25 Caldron Scientific Calculator watch
4:58 Uranus Calculator watch
5:47 Pulsar Time Computer Calculator watch
7:53 Hughes Compu Chron Calculator watch
8:52 Sinclair wrist calculator watch
9:52 HP Hewlett Packard HP-01 Calculator watch
11:25 Citizen 49-9315 Calculator watch
12:09 Citizen 49-9140 Scientific Calculator watch
12:52 Citizen 49-9714 Alarm Calculator watch
13:46 Seiko C153 Calculator watch
14:38 Seiko C359 Checkmate Calculator watch
15:06 Alba Y739 Pulsar Y739 Calculator watch
15:46 Seiko C439 Micro Calculator watch
16:16 Seiko C515 Calculator watch
17:44 Pulsar Y735 Calculator watch
18:16 Seiko UC-2000 UC-2100 Smart watch
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Helicopters, cars, calculator watches… worlds most interesting man.
Let's not get carried away...
Don't forget "plush gorillas" 😂
Don’t forget: likes to go for a run around the house naked.
I started watching this simply because I haven't seen your stuff in a while, Nick, and wanted to see how you were doing. I kept watching because passion makes even super-niche interests attractive.
me too
Growing up in the late Soviet Union it was always my dream wearing one of the Casio’s to school, it was practically an unobtanium to have a Casio calculator watch. It usually involved a trip to a black market meet, risking loosing your cash or being arrested. And such it remained a dream until I came to the land of the free. And then I saw your videos and it rejuvenated my dream of acquiring a true calculator watch. Thanks to you, my friend, I now have my own Casio Databank that I can easily switch to Tokyo time when we travel with my wife to Japan or breakdown a restaurant bill between the friends and figure out who “don’t believe in tips”.
Nick, the fact that you explain the intricacies of these watches as well as the Porsche engineers discussing the new 911 GTS t-hybrid technology this week fascinates me and reveals how much time you have spent on this calculator watch obsession. More importantly, the fact that your viewers watch your entire 20 minute video on calculator watches (not Porsche, flight videos, or even dog videos), should tell you how much we enjoy your take on any aspect of life. Cheers.
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Thank you for coming back to RUclips Nick! The historical context and the nostalgia is very amazing! Please continue this series!
That collection must be worth tens of dollars.
Nick explaining to the zoom-zooms that in 1975 people did not have home computers 😂 well done, mate
where is the new porsche configuration video Nick? 🤣
This is far more important!
Porsche has watches..😮
Nick, Uranus Electronics could have been a company, founded by you.
This video explains a lot about Nick's life 😂
Came for the Porsches, have enjoyed the flying immensely, and appreciate all the the odds and ends. But this is next level nerd stuff that has put you over the top in the positive realm. Thank you!
Good to know you're deeper than just Porsches! I think my dad paid around $100 for a portable / battery operated calculator in the early 70's. Cheers!
I can’t believe i watched this whole vid. I couldn’t care less about watches in general, but this was a captivating watch (no pun intended). Looking forward to the next part.
You are truly an interesting, unique and entertaining individual. Loved this video almost as much as your Porsche reviews. Please stay active. Enjoy your videos.
Thank you, sir. The world needed this today.
I waited 6 months for this video and it didn’t disappoint 😊 I love your nerdiness ❤
Those stainless steel models really make your hair-do pop Nick!
In the early 80s I had a black Casio calc watch. Thanks 4 the memories...
These calculator watch videos might actually be your best legacy.
Nick “Antikythera” Murray.
I cannot imagine a more nerdy Hobby! Congratulations❤
Hello Nick:
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for putting it together.
I've been a watch nerd since I was a small child and remember, clearly, when calculator watches first came out. I was transfixed.
Understandably, my parents were not on board with putting one in my stocking at Christmas.
Looking forward to the next two installments.
Nick, you need a tshirt that says the world's most interesting man! That would be a huge seller! Enjoyed the video, I'm not into calculator watches, connect with you more on the Porsche content, but I do enjoy your enthusiasm for calculator watches!
Would love more watch content!
Single-handedly made calculator watches cool again.. I remember seeing one of those Pulsar digital watches when I was around 3-4 in Italy. A guy in a restaurant had it. He had an open shirt, hairy chest and was impossibly cool back in 1976. An Italian Nick Murray of sorts
This is very interesting! I have a collection of pocket calculators myself, but I never got into the fascinating field of calculator watches. Really looking forward to the next episode!
Super interesting, looking forward to parts 2 & 3!
Man those Casio watches were a hit back in 1990s there was guy in my primary school who had one. I sinned and coveted his watch.
Love these Casios❤❤
Never had one, never wanted one, but fascinated by your presentation. Thanks for being you! Looking forward to the next installment.
Nick is such a tease!! 911 talk will come…eventually 😜
Loved it!!!
You are a renaissance man Nick! Wonder what other hobbies you aren't sharing with us yet??
You don't want to know
I had the one in the 3rd row, 9th from left back in 1986, what a trend setter at the time I was XD
Loved this video - passion for any hobby is admirable, and Nick, your knowledge of these devices is awesome! Looking forward to Parts 2 & 3, especially seeing currently manufactured & commercially available watches. Interesting that battery technology is said to have advanced, yet it was still possible to make a compact wrist-worn device in the mid seventies! Often tempted by a modern device, however mobile phones may have taken over……..
The "Calcron" solar watch was made by Chronar, the successor of the legendary Optel Corporation, the company that created the very first LCD wristwatch back in 1972. I don't know if the first one was ever manufactured, since all we know of that watch is the scan from that Playboy magazine advert. Most likely, judging by what we can see from that picture, the first gen Calcron wasn't even a full fledged watch but just a wearable calculator much like the ill-fated Sinclair Wrist Calculator, unlike its solar successor. Optel also made a prototype LCD calculator watch before going bust in 1976, leading to the creation of Chronar and the subsequent introduction of their solar calculator watch (aka Calcron Solar).
Can’t believe how interesting you are making this🤓
In the late 70’s, I was the only kid in school that had a Sinclair digital LED calculator. Despite the distinction, it did not make me popular.
I'm going to .. Watch this
Awesome video Nick, I'm from 1981 and work in IT so being the nerd that I am I owned several calculator and databank watches, mostly Casio I believe so very interested in the second video.
When a gentleman is out and about... he can't be without a calculator!
My favorite one was a Casio with some type of a rudimentary game where you had to keep pressing a key or keys with great intensity. It's what helped me get through some of me most boring college classes back in the late 70s. Keep up the good work Nick! You never stop to impress some of your most demanding demographic!
A solid 5/10 video Nick, keep up the average work 😊
Great video, can't wait to see part II. I still wear my 26y.old citizen quartz watch that i love. Oh and video thumbnail is not creepy at all 👍
Enjoyed that!
Can’t wait for part 2 next year 😂
Nick we need you to urgently post a video on how to spec 992.2.
I know it’s summer, you’re probably vacationing in those opulent resorts and have some personal life beside the channel, etc.. BUT RUclips needs you Mate!
Dwight Shrute would approve of this video!
Funny, how Nick brings up BSG at 8:20.
Oh it's amazing, the watch plane, so many things I really like, it's really great❤
NICK IS MAKING NERDY DIGITAL WATCH CONTENT! YES!!!
Great stuff Nick. Keep it coming!
I would love to have a Casio Databank 150 like I had in high school.
I had a black Casio calculator watch around 1985 I think.
I need to try and figure out which model it was and get one!
I didn't know Nick was in digital calculator watches this much. Nice collection for sure.
I have four wrist watches, one analog, three digitals. 1: Citizen Eco-Drive E110 (regretted buying it), Bulova Computron (modern version, gold color), Casio A171-WE-1A and it's Chinese version SKMEI 2146 (silver) because I don't like the Casio's side light. The SKMEI is backlit.
Who else remembers these watches being banned from the classroom back in the day?
We _all_ knew that kid with one of these calculator watches. I think most of us even had a few teachers rocking the "digi" - usually a Casio.
Speaking of old calculators.
My Father surprised me one day with his personal _slide rule_ from antiquity times (as I would always say). That was the first and only time I have ever seen a slide rule, which was another early form of calculator for the uninformed. I thought to myself, _"Great. What's next? An abacus?!"_
Nevertheless, I appreciate the nostalgia, Nick.
Stay classy my friends.
Yes, back in the 80's. 😊
Side rule from antiquity times? LOL, slide rules were high tech when I was a kid and commonly banned from classrooms. I've still got my Army issue slide rule ... maybe should have turned it in when I was discharged in 1972. Has the statute of limitations expired yet?
Nick, you are truly a modern renaissance (oxymoron?) person. The varied interests, and the cataloging of the same is truly impressive.
How is the airplane license coming along?
Cheers
5:04 I knew he would and he did. He said Uranus 😁😁😁😁
He never lets us down
Great history of those calculator watches! My first one was a cassio so I can't wait for you to do the cassio video. But by the way do you remember the Bomar brain. I had one of them in 1972 or 3.
Amazing accuracy in manufacturing buttons and mechanical
Hi Nick. I normally watch your Porsche content especially when you go through the individual specs. I liked the blue 911 you had a while back. You really nerded the f**k out in this video…holy sh*t…and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t wait for the Casio video. I’ve seen some cheap retro Casio calculator watches new on Amazon for around $40. Guess they’re bringing them back. I may get a white one and a black one. Take care bro. - Toronto, Canada.
Bring back the Porsche videos - all is forgiven!!
now this is content :)
i honestly can't remember if i ever had a calc watch. i know i had a red tetris watch that i got from a cereal box that you had to mail off with a check, but can't remember if i had calculator watches or not. interesting video!
My sister bought me the UC-2000 in 84. I still have it.
very cool video Nick (993 Owner) !
I wonder if you will show my one from the 80s. It was a touch screen model. Casio maybe but not sure. For years no one would believe it was touch screen until I showed them.
Can’t wait for part ii Nick
Yup. Srsly.
*I would love to see Uranus in real life!*
Hahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Oh no. Nick is getting into Watch Social Media. What's next? Drag races?
Interesting review of history. However, IMO these calculator watches were ridiculous at the time and still are. 😜
Nick Helicopter review + flying lesson!
can you please do another video update on your house?.. this time please make the video longer and film more details of the house, and talk more about it, I love your house and I hope you do it thanks! 💙💙
Nick should give us a course in Time Management
“Add 6 times 7…” 🤔
Primary school PTSD I suspect
He does admit he needs a calculator
300th like! Here for the classical music.
It’s hard to believe that he said there’s only a handful of knowledgeable including nick in the world, yes indeed is hard to believe these kind of characters exist
Sick! but also very unexpected
In the seventies I still used an abacus.
This is really a niche collector topic but interesting video. BTW, do you Kiwis call the watch crown the bezel? You mentioned pulling out the "bezel" to change settings. Not being pedantic or anything. :) Or do you actually pull on the bezel on these gizmos instead? The world wonders.
Nope, as a kiwi I can confirm it's called a crown here too. But Kiwi's are generally economical in many ways, including with words, crisps are chips, fries are chips, maybe in some circles crowns are bezels who knows..
Nick, we want the waterboarding porsche 911 configuration video🤗🤪
Those who were playing the "calculator watch" drinking game, you have 46 drinks in front of you. 49 if you include "calculator on a watch" or "calculator on your wrist"
do you offer rapid dry towels for calculator watches?
Thank you for the valuable information for such watches that we witnessed in that period of qualitative shift in digital watches and accounting technology. Thank you. 📟
Arithma… my dad, too.
As a man of mystery, will we be seeing a pairing video for which calculator watch goes with which brand of car? I could simply not bear the social faux pas of wearing a Hello Kitty watch while driving my Subaru Justy.
Wow. 😮
No mention of the casio at 550 Janus.
@@geoffsullivan4063 that is a 1984 watch that is in the next video
Scintillating, and yet could not look away. You must be a warlock.
Part 1??? There’s a part 2? 😱😱
LOL “save us!”😅
Hey Nick, Which 991/992 model do you think is the best car? I am looking to buy a 911 Carrera coupe with a dual clutch transmission. My thoughts are Carrera S , Turbo or GT3 Touring. Any recommendations? It will be a weekend car. Thanks 👍
The GT3 models despite being every fan boys favorite are the hardest to live with and generally horrible to drive on public roads. I would avoid. The Turbo and Turbo S are easy to live with but least exciting to drive of all the models. The S and GTS would be the best mix,.
@@NickMurray THANKS 👍 and 991 vs 992? Any thoughts?
@@89itis Same for the most part just styling and tech changes so pick the one you prefer
@@NickMurray thanks for taking the time to reply. I already have an R8 V10 manual. Really like the car, but would also like something different as well and 911 is really the only car that I always wanted, so hopefully sooner or later I’ll have one. Thanks again.
You'll be happy to know the new Samsung 7 watch as a calculator in it.😂
Man I wanted a calculator watch so bad when I was a kid.
I think the closest I got was a radio watch.
You have a problem! I have same problem with mechanical watches so I know the pain.
He said Uranus….
Calculator watch collection....ultimate panty drop.
The King of Virginity
I had a Casio calculator watch in the early 1980s. It was all black with grey buttons. The writing was not very durable and vanished fast.
You are without a doubt a Nerd's nerd! Lol
Uranus Electronics… sounds like a fictitious company in a 70s porn flick.
calculator watches? more is revealed ...
I dont know why you collect calculator watches?It just doesn't add up.😊
And this is why Nick has so many girlfriends 🤣