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Now the simple classic timepiece is fully up-to-date!Īll the Casio internals are removed, and a new movement holder supports a fresh PCB with an OLED display mounted via a flexible sub-PCB. ![]() Wouldn’t it be nice if a Casio F91 could be a modern smartwatch! Well thanks to it can, with a complete re-engineering of the classic watch’s internals. If it has a flaw though, it’s that the functions of a watch from 1989 are very basic. The Casio F91 is the archetypal digital watch - it’s affordable, it’s been in production since the Ark, it does the job so well that it’s become a design classic, and it remains a very tough act to follow. ![]() They can produce the most advanced digital watches ever to grace the wrist, but their work will forever be associated with one of their more lowly creations. More retro ones come with all kinds of different hardware architectures, like VX-4 and PB-1000 that runs on Hitachi HD61700A processor, or fx-7000G that runs on NEC μPD1007G-008.Ĭommunity-driven, open-sourced emulators exist for some retro models, but unfortunately not for modern models yet.In a way, you have to feel a bit sorry for the engineers at Casio. Most of the modern Casio graphic calculators run on 32-bit Hitachi SuperH-3/4 processors, while scientific, programmable, and financial models run on ASICs.
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