Casio AT-550 Touch Screen Calculator Watch (1984)

Casio AT-550 Touch Screen Calculator Watch (1984)

Yes you read that right. A touchscreen watch from 1984 !!! Un believable, and very enjoyable.

The AT-550 was an incredible watch for its time, or even for today. It had a capacitive touch screen, and that was used to operate the built-in calculator. How it did so trumps even the fact that a watch released in 1984 had a touch screen, much less at a price of under $100. To enter numbers and the numerical operators, one just "wrote" them with a finger, by tracing the appropriate shape on the watches crystal.

Yes the recognizer was slow, and one had to draw the characters carefully. But this was 40 years ago - the same year that the first Macintosh was released, and the year that Mark Zuckerberg was born! That is, this watch did this over 18 Moores' Laws ago. That means, if the chip that did this existed today, it would have 262,144 (over a quarter of a million) times the computational power that it had then!

Text above from the Youtube producer. It was posted in 2012 i altered the "but this was 40 years ago" bit. It originally said "28 years ago".
Just for clarity's sake.


Now that is a 'wow' moment for sure.

And now check the Seiko TV Watch from 1982.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge2

We all know that the technology we are allowed to see is at least 10 years behind what exists in the clandestine labs and black ops production facilities. I suspect it's morel like 40 to 50 years, but that's my opinion. It's indubitable that the explosion in AI technology that we've seen in the last year was sitting on a shelf somewhere waiting to be released - or more likely being used in a lab somewhere to manipulate the terabytes of data being sucked in through the Internet.

So, maybe these were just little bitty tiny hints of where the technology was back then, enough to whet the commoners' appetites and get us hungry for what was to come.

So, not so much a "wow" moment as a manipulative tool, something of a conditioning or pre-programming.

ETA: No doubt somebody is going to come along and deride my comment as some kind of crazy conspiracy theory. Need I remind you that this is A CONSPIRACY THEORY WEBSITE?

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a reply to: SecretKnowledge2

I do remember when it came out then. There were a few others.

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

LOL, na man i agree with you.

I would say minimum 20 years but it depends on what the tech is we're talking about.

Like aircraft? 50 years maybe, maybe more.

A.I. was talked about 30/40 years ago when the personal computer started to become a thing.

Lasers?
Fibre optics?

Theres a whole lot of tech we dont even know about right now being used somewhere somehow.

a reply to: mysterioustranger

Well its a new one on me that the tech was out there for less than a hundred dollars 40 years ago.

Still, im not a big tech fan or into watches so maybe thats why it was a wow moment for me today to learn of it.

I think we passed the threshhold of technology helping to make things easier. It seems like technology now is making things much more complicated. People used to have brains, now their brain belongs to their phone provider....they have to look things up all the time since they don't have pay attention and memorize things anymore. In fact, they can just go back and get what they read in a minute. Conversations between intellectual impersonators have changed over the years. People believe they are smart because they can operate a cell phone or have a car drive them around without having to drive it. Gee, my old girlfriends mastered that half a century ago, and they did not have to pay for an advanced phone to pay their tab, a guy usually bought them a drink in the bars back then. No dating app needed back then either.

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

ETA: No doubt somebody is going to come along and deride my comment as some kind of crazy conspiracy theory. Need I remind you that this is A CONSPIRACY THEORY WEBSITE?

Jeebes, how dumb and gullible can you be? That's as bad as me saying that the Biden we see from here on out will be an AI created fake because he's already dead.
( I expect to be proven right one day. )

originally posted by: SecretKnowledge2
a reply to: AwakeNotWoke
... Theres a whole lot of tech we dont even know about right now being used somewhere somehow.

Being used on us, more than likely.

originally posted by: nugget1
...Jeebes, how dumb and gullible can you be? That's as bad as me saying that the Biden we see from here on out will be an AI created fake because he's already dead.

( I expect to be proven right one day. ) ...

And the one we've been seeing up to now?





ETA: Just in case some humorless doofus comes along trying to point out that these are obviously fakes, I know. They are meant to be satirical, and part of that satire is pointing out - in response to nugget1's comment - that if any plebe with a PC and an internet connection can do this, what can high-level organisations with unlimited budgets do?

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a reply to: AwakeNotWoke



TOO funny! Thanks for brightening my day, ANW!

a reply to: SecretKnowledge2

As I recall you didn't have the links, net, support...but had to go thru hoops to connect...a really funky way.

Not many integrated systems then. Almost no cable stations, stats for comm notnlike today...or as many.

That thing shook up the industry. You wanted one...but no one took it seriously. We were waiting for that Dick Tracy type phone -watch...or like on the Flintstones!

Another I think blew things up was the Blackberry Phone-Comm hand hel

Peace

PS I have a women's crystal ring with a small clock in it. 1963

a reply to: mysterioustranger

PS I have a women's crystal ring with a small clock in it. 1963

You know the saying by now....

....pics or it didn't blah blah blah, lol.

Would love to see that though, nice

I wonder what $100 forty years ago works out to in todays purchasing power?

a reply to: SecretKnowledge2

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

Not a humorless doofus here...(I thought those were pretty funny).

I agree with your premise. What's interesting to me is why, if they're going to do this at all, wouldn't they go all the way? Why let Biden come off as some feeble elderly dementia patient?? What's the motive? There must be something to this, it can't be by accident; nothing is by accident.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge2

Gimme a couple days to get it outta a trunk. Ill holler back when I do.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

Not a humorless doofus here...(I thought those were pretty funny).

I agree with your premise. What's interesting to me is why, if they're going to do this at all, wouldn't they go all the way? Why let Biden come off as some feeble elderly dementia patient?? What's the motive? There must be something to this, it can't be by accident; nothing is by accident.

My take on that question is that they are intentionally trying to crash the system. They want people to lose confidence in the federal gov't. What's the strategy?

Problem ... Solution ... Reaction

I find it hard to believe that they are that stupid. Maybe they are. I hope they are. But I can't help but guess that maybe it's all intentional.

His "address" yesterday, he had a big bruise on his chin, left side, and his watch was not set to the supposed hour when the address took place.

The bruise could have been covered with makeup (assuming that we were not watching a computer generated fake). The watch is not something that anyone seriously concerned with propaganda should have overlooked.

I had no idea something like that even existed back then. I mean, handwriting numbers on a watch face in the '80s? That’s impressive.