Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Customer Release Battery Replacement Message-ID: <6437@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:26:12 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6437 Posted: Fri Dec 7 00:26:12 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 07:09:09 EST References: <328@wnuxb.UUCP> <469@cyb-eng.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 35 > 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.