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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Customer Release Battery Replacement
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:26:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 00:26:12 1984
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> BEST replaced my Casio calculator watch batter with no such nonsense (but
> with a 2-day delay, they were "overloaded with work").
> 
> Cheers,
> Topher Eliot
> Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
> {gatech,ihnp4,nbires,seismo,ucb-vax}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!topher

As a matter of fact, one day I came in with a year old Armitron watch
that I had bought at BEST to get the battery replaced because the numbers
went away when you tried to use the light.  After replacing the battery,
the problem didn't go away so he went in the back and fixed it.  Close
examination showed that he had swapped the watch guts with one from a
new watch of the same model.  Cost to me...nothing.  This however is
probably not a company policy.

Anyhow, the beeper went out on it finally and the band broke so I went
down to see what the latest in thirty dollar digital watches was.  The
result, a CASIO touch screen calculator watch.  Looks fairly nice (none
of those gawdy buttons on the front), it displays the date at the same
time as the time, and puts the time up at the top when you are in one
of the modes other than normal time or calculator mode.  It also includes
the obligatory stopwatch mode, count time timer, hourly feeper, and three
alarms.  It also switches between 12 and 24 hour time with the press of
a single button, great for people like me who can't hack military time
too easily (everything is fine until after lunch and then they start
that hundred hours stuff).  Using the touch screen takes a little practice
but isn't too hard.  It's a four banger with constant and it has a neat
backspace key that will pop off erroneous key strokes, and will even
undo the last operation.

-Ron

By the way...Best Products is called LaBelle's in Denver.