Pulsar Time Computer: 1972 digital clock, which cost like a car

Today, Apple should provide more details on its Apple Watch smart watches. Many analysts believe that immediately after entering the market, Apple watches will occupy a place in the top sales. There are skeptics, but they are fewer.

It is clear that the functionality of the device will be quite good, because every year smart devices are becoming smarter. What about early versions of wrist electronic gadgets? Let's rate the Pulsar Time Computer, the first wrist digital watch released back in 1972.


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As you can see, in that distant year, the watch already had its own commercial. However, after viewing it, it becomes clear that marketing was marketing 40 years ago, because Time Computer is not a computer. There is neither a calendar, nor an address book, nothing of which the device can be called a “computer”.

All Pulsar Time Computer can do is show time. But in 1972, many people almost worshiped everything connected with the computer, and the electronic digital clock, which works with the “number” for some, turned out to be a desirable purchase. Plus, the device was also equipped with a light sensor, thanks to which the brightness of the image on the clock screen was adjusted to the illumination of the street or the room.

The price of watches in 1972 was $ 2,100. Here it is worth remembering that $ 2,100 now and then is “two big differences”. In 1972 for this money you could buy a brand new Ford Pinto car. The watches were so advanced that in 1973 even James Bond put them on in “Live and Let Die”.

After some time, the market was flooded with computer devices from HP, Intel, Commodore International, and other companies. But this watch was a qualitatively new device for its time, a piece of the future that could be held in hands.

By the way, here's another watch, this time, from Commodore (1975):