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Article: Timex Brings High-tech Goal Home With Data Link Watch
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- February 23, 1995
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Journal Record. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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One odd thing about a new wrist watch is that it says
"Microsoft" on its face. The company is better known for computer
software than for timepieces. That's why the watch also says
Timex on its case.
A few minutes ago, the watch and I were watching the computer
monitor together. The watch was making far more sense than I was
of the white horizontal lines going across the black screen.
In less than 30 seconds, this digital watch had wirelessly
absorbed the information coming from the screen. It had been
programmed with a week's worth of appointments, to-do items, two
dozen telephone numbers, a dozen anniversaries and five alarm
times that I previously entered in the Timex-Microsoft ...