| ▲ | canucker2016 4 hours ago | |
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 4 hours 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. | ||