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▲ mikestew 2 hours ago

For those that don’t feel like watching a video, it was the Timex Datalink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink

▲canucker2016 an hour ago | parent [-]

Supported in MS Schedule+ 7.0 included with Office 95.

Very magical to hold your watch up to the CRT monitor, see the monitor go black and flash a bunch of white lines for a few seconds and then look at your wrist to view the downloaded info.

But it was only letters and numbers so the routine got old fast.

Could be a bit finicky to get a successful transfer as well.

And transfer bandwidth was pretty low.

▲ssl-3 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

I used one for a few years. It was a pretty neat thing for its time.

IIRC it didn't work with a CRT using MS operating systems after Windows 2000 due to driver changes or something.

But Timex also a sold little single-LED blinkenbox that plugged into an RS-232 port that would do the trick. That was intended for computers with LCD screens like laptops, but it worked with later operating systems too.