Casio's 1980s Watch Heritage Page Resurfaces on Hacker News
A Casio retrospective page on its 1980s watch lineup drew renewed attention after being submitted to Hacker News.
What to know
- Casio published a heritage page cataloguing its watch models from the 1980s as part of a 50th anniversary retrospective.
- The page was submitted to Hacker News and reached the front page with 118 points and 55 comments.
- Automated Mastodon accounts that mirror HN's front page republished the link shortly after, without added commentary.
How it unfolded 2 developments, newest first · click a bar or a number to jump articlesposts
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Automated accounts mirror the HN submission on Mastodon
Bot accounts that republish Hacker News front-page links posted the Casio page title and HN discussion link on Mastodon, with no original commentary.
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They didn't mention the watch I wanted so badly and my parents got for me in 1981 - the "Melody Alarm" or "12-Tune Musical Alarm/Chronograph by Casio".I was delighted to find a youtube video of it - the music brings back such memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJdKt9JwRkc&t=90shttps://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1981-Sea…
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Casio Watches of the 1980s Link: https://www. casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heri tage/1980s/ Discussion: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0317363
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It's hard to describe how optimistic society, and futuristic such consumer technology felt as it rapidly advanced in the 60s-80s. There used to be television shows about the technology of the future, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow's_World and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Tomorrow_(TV_series)It used to be harmless things like a…
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Casio 1980s watch heritage page submitted to Hacker News
User karagenit submitted Casio's retrospective page on its 1980s watch models to Hacker News, where it reached a score of 118 points with 55 comments.
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2 outlets Casio Watches of the 1980s
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I do have a digital watch now (Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic). But for several decades I just kept buying versions of this very plain watch over and over again: https://us.firstclasswatches.com/casio-hybrid-display-black-...My wishes for a watch do not go much further than "what time is it". To me the only advantage of the Samsung watch is the…
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A lot of the people replying to you don't seem to realise that it comes from analog/mechanical watches where major features of the watch are advertised on the dial. "Spring drive" "co-axial" "Swiss made" etc.Except I agree, in an analog watch it's somewhat classy (although people complaintthat seiko sometimes overdoes it) but on a digital watch it…
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This took me back to my childhood. I did not see the one I got, searched now and it is Casio DB-380G. Very nice memories for a kid playing with a high tech watch of the time. We also had an Atari 800 XL. In my dream I saw that I was playing the Atari game, Pitfall, on that watch. I wished it was really true when I woke up.
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Same, which is why I got the DW5600BB recently. Lacks features I'd like — no radio sync, no solar, no MIP display, but at least it looks cool and clean. Wish Casio had more such nice looking options.GW-BX5600 is sooo close to being a perfect watch, but they just had to plaster the watch face with all that text.
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Thinking about it, even a lot of fancy fashion watch brands seem to do this, “Quartz”, “water resist 20m”, however many jewels. The old Casio watches are a bit worse for it though.But check out the Casio MQ-24, it’s cheap and cheerful but has a much plainer face.
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Last year they made a few minimal versions of the f91w with those labels removed
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⌚ 1980s | Casio Watch 50th Anniversary | CASIO https://www. casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heri tage/1980s/ # casio # watches # retro # vintage
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One of my core memories as a 80s kid was the absurd G Shock tan line I had when I was around 8. I put that thing on and never took it off for probably a year or more. Also it stunk like the inside of a cast but it was like a challenge I put on myself to never take it off. Eventually the wrist band broke and I could never find a replacement (or my…
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Definitely had the TS-1000 growing up in 80s. I remember looking at the window display of some electronics store where all these watches and Nintendo Game & Watch games where all lined up.I was in Japan a few years back and I bought two F-91Ws, they look so small compared to today's watches. Too bad they're so flimsy, I wore one for a week but…
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not exactly practical or off-the-shelf but ones like the Casio AE-1200 (Casio Royale) look pretty good if you rub off some of the printing: https://i.imgur.com/q1cpCOS.jpeg compared to stock
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I wish I had more uses for my Casio calculator watch (CA53W). But these days it's faster to hold down the power button on my phone for half a second to activate a voice assistant. Now, if Casio made a smart watch that could run a micro-model on-device to do voice input for the calculator...
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I actually love that :)My A159W is my daily driver. I prefer it to my Apple Watch, which I've pretty much stopped wearing. I am not in a wealth bracket to afford wearing mechanical watches.My Casio is a cheap watch, kind of quirky, and I love it!I think it suits me very well.
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> Watch with Phone Dialer function enabling audio-based dialing> Introducing Phone Dialer functionality. This new feature worked in tandem with the Telememo function, which stored up to 50 telephone numbers. Simply holding the watch’s built-in speaker up to the receiver of a push-button telephone allowed users to place calls to stored numbers…
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I imagine it's because they need to put something on the area around the screen, otherwise it would look weird. Casio do make plainer variants of their watches so you can see what I mean: https://us.firstclasswatches.com/casio-black-382mm-digital-d... . It just kind of looks empty. The F-84W has stuff around the screen but is a bit more…
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I've lost my apple watches recently, and I've been using different versions of apple watches for about 7 years. I thought I won't come back to regular watches, but I've decided to try and bought a cheap classic Casio watches for ~30 bucks. After 2 months I must admit that I don't really need smart watches :D
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So many of the cool, revolutionary features of these watches look so hard to use and can't possibly have been used regularly by their owners (translation dictionary lookup? scientific calculator?). Reminds me of the Windows CE devices I was kind of obsessed with as a teenager that were amazing but kind of useless because of their form factor.
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I was looking at the Casio calculator catalogue recently, and I noticed there are a lot of different models. They're all broadly the same, but each one has slightly different combinations of features and appearance. The watch collectors on YouTube show that there's been hundreds of different Casio watches as well. I wonder why they create so many…
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I had a Casio watch in the early to mid 1980s that tracked the tides based on geo coordinates you entered and would tell you the best time to go fishing. They still promote them for this purpose:https://www.casio.com/us/watches/types/activity/fishing-watc...It looked something like…
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I had a Casio in 1985 that I swear fell out of a time portal. It had a large touch screen face and allowed me to enter 50 contacts (name + phone) and had calculator functionality via touch screen (no key pad). It is not shown on this Casio page and I’ve never seen a reference to it despite it being years ahead of its time.
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I like Casio watches but I'd like them more if the watch faces weren't splattered with "Water resist", "Chrono alarm", and such labels. Yes I don't need to be reminded this watch indeed is an chrono alarm, like an advertisement, every time I look at it.
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Casio Watches of the 1980s Link: https://www. casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heri tage/1980s/ Comments: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0317363