Re:Seiko Originals: The UC-2000, A Smartwatch from 1984
by kazinator on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:20PM
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> That sounds like something straight out of a scifi film since the 80s is not exactly known for great advances in personal computing.
That is jaw-droppingly ignorant. That's the decade that gave us the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, ... the rise of online bulletin boards (BBSes). Communication speeds in consumer equipment going from 300 bps to past 9600. Graphics resolutions rising. Quality audio becoming available: from speakers connected to GPIO lines for square wave toggling, to 16 bit stereo samples at 44+ kHz sampling rates. Memory sizes, complexity of applications, ... games! Mass storage: from floppies to tiny hard disks (like the IBM PC/XT's 10 megger), to much larger disks. Home printing: dot matrix/daisywheel to laser. HP LaserJet: 1984; Apple LaserWriter: 1985.
That is jaw-droppingly ignorant. That's the decade that gave us the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, ... the rise of online bulletin boards (BBSes). Communication speeds in consumer equipment going from 300 bps to past 9600. Graphics resolutions rising. Quality audio becoming available: from speakers connected to GPIO lines for square wave toggling, to 16 bit stereo samples at 44+ kHz sampling rates. Memory sizes, complexity of applications, ... games! Mass storage: from floppies to tiny hard disks (like the IBM PC/XT's 10 megger), to much larger disks. Home printing: dot matrix/daisywheel to laser. HP LaserJet: 1984; Apple LaserWriter: 1985.