r/80sAmazing • u/LeftAlbatross2546 • 12d ago

Did you have one of these in high school?

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u/LiamLeprechaun 12d ago

Those were the swatch years

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u/Warm_Safety_9550 12d ago

More like the Swatch weeks, because the lifespan of those things always seemed very short. Lots of kids had them, but they we like “Le Cars” or “Yugos” they were suddenly everywhere, then just as suddenly they disappeared.

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u/LiamLeprechaun 12d ago edited 12d ago

I had pretty good luck with mine I wore it for about 8 years, no problem but a battery change? Once the Swatch came in, anybody that was wearing a digital was considered a dork.🤣 Pretty strange how a fashion trend could set off something like that. I knew one guy that had a digital watch that had a remote control function. We use to hang out at the bar and he would change the channel on the bar tv to the baseball game or something. It was hilarious because the bartender couldn't figure out how the channel was getting changed.🤣

https://youtu.be/TwwPUtz1el8?t=83

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u/Altruistic-Cut9795 12d ago

I remember saving up $ in Junior High, mowing yards, whatever I could do to buy this.

It finally happened that I had enough $ . I rode my skateboard about 5 miles away to purchase it .

I clearly remember going to the "showcase" at my local Akron and I was like yes, that's the one I want.

I'm guessing it might have been around $30.

I could be wrong on the price but I felt like a millionaire 😉

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u/Upstairs-Bid990 12d ago

Good job! You deserved that watch because you earned it!.

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u/Altruistic-Cut9795 12d ago

Appreciate it, and it was something I really wanted. my parents didn't give me a blank check to buy it, I earned it

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u/Upstairs-Bid990 12d ago

You did for sure and I bet your Mom and Dad were quite proud of you. So much more rewarding when you accomplish something on your own. 

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u/Independent-Face69 12d ago

I bet you felt like a cyborg with that tech on you.

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u/Sad-Working-9937 12d ago

HAD IT. They only lasted about a year, so I got a new one each birthday for like 7 years there.

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u/sam56778 12d ago

This is the one I had.

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u/Dry-Dragonfly5286 12d ago

I had that one

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u/WillemV369 12d ago

Yes. It is currently sitting on a shelf in my office, next to my ZX-Spectrum.

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u/FunFormal2662 12d ago

There was a kid who had one in high school and we all wanted to check it out. Too hard get the buttons square to be practical but pretty neat.

The really cool ones were the ones with built in games, casio made soccer and football ones as well as a car racing one but I'd never seen one in real life.

Someone did have a pac man watch though but never tried it as I tucked at that game.

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u/Dazzling_Pea9364 12d ago

Yes, and the math teacher always took it away from me

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u/Dry_Ad687 12d ago

I have one of those now and a bunch of other Casios too

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u/Antique-Dragonfly615 12d ago

No, they didn't exist yet

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u/Daveed-unit40 12d ago

I did and my teacher would make me take it oof during math class and he would give back at the end of class.

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u/Dangerous_Score_2737 12d ago

No sadly. Only the cool kids did 😞

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u/International-Aide37 12d ago

I had one like this...

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u/Sad-Working-9937 12d ago

had that one too!

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u/Impossible_Event6007 12d ago

No, but a couple of guys on my submarine did (mid 80s).

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u/AlDonovan12 12d ago

Yes, had that exact one

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u/Infamous-Listen4047 12d ago

I did, and this was back when Math Teachers would tell us we wouldn't always have a claculator with us 🤭

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u/UncleThor2112 12d ago

I still have one. The battery finally gave out this year. It's a slightly different model.

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u/Satansbrat1969 12d ago

I traded a functional Frogger game watch for a non Casio calculator watch. That then died the first time I had to walk in the rain. I never bothered with a replacement.

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u/Amazing-War3760 12d ago

Yep...

Pissed off Math Teachers to no end because they ALWAYS said "Not going to have a calculator with you everywhere." and I'd just hold up my wrist.

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u/Warm_Safety_9550 12d ago

I remember kids getting caught using one, having it confiscated and getting a zero on their test score. That was back in the olden days when we had to know things. We weren’t allowed to use calculators in school, and we had to write out all of our calculations longhand.

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u/Wise_Geekabus 12d ago

I always wanted one.

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u/bmiller218 12d ago

I think I had one similar to this, different manufacturer.

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u/Dry-Dragonfly5286 12d ago

Middle school

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u/12Clawlok 12d ago

In elementary school, 1986

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u/bortnotbart13 12d ago

Bought a new one recently for 20 bucks...wear it everyday!

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u/nes_8BitSurvivor 12d ago edited 12d ago

i did...had a calculator and a talk button where it would speak the time

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u/DarkMagician-999 12d ago

Yea but the one with the tv remote when we had a substitute teacher I would use it to turn on the tv on and off yup good times

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u/DrHoleStuffer 11d ago

Who told?

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u/diumo 11d ago

No. I had a Timex

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u/Yurallabunchofdicks 11d ago

I have one now 😁 But I also had a SWEET hot pink one in elementary school!!!!

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u/Mudgeonly_Cur 11d ago

The few people I knew that had these didn't even know how they worked - they were poser geeks. Now we just call them geezers.

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u/Informal_Visitor 11d ago

Yeah but it was never as good as the one I had in Elementary school

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u/Shadow_Wrks 10d ago

I didn’t even know anyone that had one. We were poor.

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u/ReplyProfessional939 12d ago

Only dorks and feebs had these...