Is this true?? (TI & watches)

Brad Parker brad at heeltoe.com
Fri Feb 23 05:04:19 CST 2007


Kevin Schoedel wrote:
>
>The first prototype quartz crystal watch was developed by a Swiss company,
>CEH, in 1962. The first commercial quartz crystal watch was the Seiko 35SQ,
>in 1969. The first to market in the USA was the Accuquartz from Bulova, a
>Swiss company, in 1970.

Any idea when the first all electric watch was put out?  Gary Boone used
to tell some interesting stories about a chip he worked on for (I think)
an LED watch.  I think a flaw kept them from bring first to market,
however.

[heh, and someone told me over lunch the other day that the guy I'm
doing work for "worked on some sort of 4 way multiprocessor at DEC"... I
think it was a pdp-11 :-) i need to ask about *that*!]

-brad



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