Calculator watch history part 2 The Casio Years

[@garthwebb6418]

Never mind helicopters, dogs, gorillas or Porsches, THIS is what really drives Nick! Have any of us ever seen him so animated and excited? I think not. WOW! And who knew there were SO many with all the nuances - not me. But, in 1982 my gadget loving Dad bought me my first (and only) calculator watch, yep, the CA-85! I played “Number Attack” endlessly! That watch was my claim to fame in 8th grade and unfortunately a standard I never quite met again. Seriously, these two calculator watch video are amazing and I’m holding my breath until the third episode comes out. BRAVO! Thanks Nick!

[@NickMurray]

CA-85. You are a legend

[@blinkero8]

So I ended up here because my lovely Casio MTP-1215, which my dear grandma gifted me, broke its strap for like the fifth time or so. I was born in 1995, and in 1999 my dad's first cell phone, a Motorola StarTAC, and his Casio DBX-112 were truly pieces of tech marvels for me. I asked him, 'Hey, what happened to that old calculator watch I liked?' He told me where it was but warned me about its condition. The strap was gone, it had stopped working, and a few buttons were non-functional. He then said I could check out his older watch, the one he and my grandpa bought together-same watch, same specs. And oh boy, what a surprise! I was messing around for fun, looking to get an old watch just because I like retro stuff (I also drive a Ford Taunus GT SP5 '83-I live in Argentina) and found GOLD. Not one but TWO Casio CL-301s! My dad's CL-301 is in good condition with some worn-out buttons, and my grandpa's CL-301 is in pristine condition with the box and user manual. I really want to check if they are still working. I’ll probably use my dad's CL-301 and sell my grandpa’s. Any suggestions or tips on how to preserve them or things I should be aware of? Thanks, and oh boy, today I learned something new!

[@peekay4]

This video is so awesome in so many levels. Thanks Nick, I know next to nothing about calculator watches and love to see your passion for them!! I wish every watch enthusiast will watch this vid. Can't wait for part 3.

[@993GUY]

Thank you Nick! I remember how excited my dad was when he purchased his Casio CA-95 then immediately tasked me to read the directions so I could tell him how it worked😅😅⌚

[@jasonknight5863]

I lived in Ireland at the time and remembered it was impossible to buy one but desperately wanted to get my hands on any calculator watch. Finally I got my hands on one in the mid 90’s the Black CX-50 / 53 at the time. Until then I had one that you ran on water drops. It blew my mind :) didn’t work great. 😌

[@jackson5116]

9:12 that response right there shows exactly why Casio is the king of cool watches.

[@HighPeakMultimedia]

I cannot express how much I enjoyed this. Thank you so much.I'm going to have to seek out a CA-80 (broken) now. Currently have a DBC-611 winging its way over from the US to the UK as I type this. So excited.

[@avr198]

oh. this was actually a serious video. thank you for the knowledge as always.

[@MeppyMan]

Ah this brings back more memories. I would have been in intermediate and I got one of the first Casio game calculators. Then when these watches came out I really wanted one, but got a radio watch for Xmas or birthday instead. Still pretty cool. Listening to music in class lol.

[@MeppyMan]

Also you’re also a pilot right? I used to fly helicopters, parents had a flight school in NZ.

[@uaziz7]

Love your video, Nick! Great collection and enthusiasm. 😊

[@daro22chl]

Love this series!

[@patkeen8668]

My fav "I'll be swimming in ladies after buying this watch"! Oh Nick, what's next? First you hook my on buying a Porsche and now I'm digging through my old storage looking for old watches. Thanks for your wonderful humor-it's sorely needed in today's world.

[@jimixjimix5097]

What a great video! I came across it while shopping online for a CASIO CA-502 (I got the original back in 1986 for my first holly communion) and I want it back :) Sometimes you come across videos and you're like how the hell have I ended up here? And this is basically the case this time too, but.... what a great coincidence and a great video! Thank you!

[@BIGWEBB88]

This is a fantastic series!

[@MrAndyS]

Hi Nick this was epic!, took me right back to the 80’s in the uk i used to study all these in the argos book

[@thomastsui1384]

Nick, You are the ultimate nerd for calculator watches!

[@bennyb6902]

we understand the historic importance of this 2 part video but we're still waiting on the new porsche configuration video nick. by now its an old porsche.

[@Dr_MattS]

“Girls are going to be impressed”. Classic one liner (we all hoped the same, and it never worked out that way…)

[@roflcopter4388]

Virginity has peaked. We can go no further than this.

[@youtuuba]

Although not a calculator watch, I love my old Casio W-71 (W71). I wish they would bring THAT one back. My only exposure to calculator watches was the Pulsar one (I don't see a model number on it), a pretty decent little device, although these days I can't read the tiny legends above each tiny round metal button (which I think are intended to be presses with a stylus or the tip of a pen),

[@zzhughesd]

Why Nick with those 4 alarms you're really spoiling us. Ferrero Rocher. Loved the vid. Thanks for making it

[@jackson5116]

11:08 I would have given my right arm for that kind of a watch in 1990 when I took Trigonometry in high school. I struggled so much with that class early on, before things finally clicked, and I was able to manage a B, but things would have been so much better to start had I had one of these bad boys on my wrist!!

[@yucasola]

Ladies, Nick is single 🤣 So hard to believe 😜

[@Mrb00st]

Oh I love Casios. Those TC50's are still cool as shit. I've got a drawer full of DBC-1500's, they're rad.

[@glenstuart7823]

Ah yes Nick I remember those well much like the original gshock I had as a kid, the only watch that could handle beatings from a child

[@ChuckJ1944]

Love your history on this. I wore one from 1982 until I got a Samsung. I had a couple non- data and one data. I also had a Bomar Brain in 1972.

[@alnico68]

How to never gait laid again! Nice collection though Nick. Cheers!

[@MrReese]

The CA-53 watches cost 40 EUR and upwards on Amazon these days...if it really were 20 bucks I'd get one in a heartbeat! Even without the light, which in my opinion is a crime, especially for the inverted display ones that look so cool! The CMD-20/30/40 was the watch I always wanted as a kid (besides the G-Shock that I actually got and wore for AGES :D), I completely forgot about it until right now :). Also, the touch screen and character detection watches blew my mind, I had no idea those existed 🤯.

[@MonteiroM]

So cool, I had no idea.

[@zoid9969]

Ah, fond memories. I had a DBC-600 (which I broke) and a DBC-62.

[@clownworld-honk410]

I now know more about Casio calculator watches than I ever thought I wanted to know or needed to know... Thanks, Nick... you are the nerd's nerd! Darta... 😅

[@Whirlynerds]

I had a calculator watch back in 1985 with that number game which was veery addictive, think it was a Casio and in black. Earlier on however I had a non solar powered digital watch by TEXET, it had a unique fault that I discovered by chance.. whenever it was in direct sunlight the time just froze! As you can imagine it caused me Chaos!..

[@rasz]

So adorkable!

[@michaelsorchantte3857]

Sharing your enthusiasm!Getting into vintage casio after collecting for over 30 years all kinds of swiss Hi and Lo end (burnt out because of the hype and flexers which ruined the hobby for me)

[@jackson5116]

Holy crap, you must really hate having to constantly change these when DST starts and ends!

[@vnitto]

Cool new haircut

[@yass123]

Review the TV ones please

[@LamarFaciane]

Wow!

[@TheJohn8765]

Having changed batteries that go *ping*, save yourself an hour scrabbling on the floor looking for the damned thing and put a piece of tape over it to capture it. Easy-peasy.

[@jasonknight5863]

Such a great video Nick. Great collection of them wow! 🤩 What model number is the Stainless steel Calculator watch Doc Brown in Back to The future wears. I have the “ crazy”watch just need the other one he has on his other wrist. 😂

[@NickMurray]

The model changes from Back to the Future to Back to the Future II, Marty starts out with a CA-50 and the Doc has the Seiko A826. Marty changes watches in the second and third films to the the CA-53

[@jasonknight5863]

@@NickMurray omg thank you so much Nick you are a genius! I figured you’d know if anyone could. Doc had the Seiko wouldn’t have thought that just figured he had a stainless steel calculator watch on his other wrist. A Casio or some variant of that make. Thanks again 🙏🏻 Looking forward to part 3:)

[@jasonknight5863]

@@NickMurray so if Marty had the Cr-50 in the first one. He obviously didn’t keep that one for the 2nd film. What ever was new in stores was then supplied to him. By then a CR-53 in 1989. Interesting. By the way my wife loved your assessment of why you bought the Gold Watch. Had her laughing hysterically with your man of means comment :) and I 😂😂😂

[@sc0rpio79]

Kinda bummed I didn't see a DBM-150.. you need to add one more to that sweet collection!

[@NickMurray]

@@sc0rpio79 I do have one. It just that I could not cover every model the video would’ve taken forever.

[@colla555]

8:22 that catalog image! What the hell can I see on the bottom right with the two red buttons and the one with two green pale buttons? Are these watched with a racing game and with golf in it??? I just Googled a little bit and they seem to be the GD8 and GG9

[@NickMurray]

@@colla555 yes indeed

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

wow and peace be upon you sir from me

[@joostdelacasque6986]

OMG, it has been confirmed…. I am a nerd….as well.

[@Gorrila_Man92]

Nicely explained and interesting expansion to your first calculator watch video! I actually think with time these two videos will be some of your most memorable, and a useful resource for others that go down the rabbit hole of collecting these. I gotta ask though, how often do you find yourself changing a watch battery? With that collection you must be like Jay Leno paying his car registration only to have another one to immediately pay 😂

[@NickMurray]

I have a whole draw full of some 150 different types of batteries, however I only change them once a year. Many older watches don't make it through the whole year.

[@mohamed22018]

great video, please make another tour video for your house if you can, thank you and I hope you do it! ✨

[@johngalt5411]

Nick! What happened to you? You used to buy new Porsches and do donuts in parking lots until they pulled error codes. I miss those days!

[@natehowe7975]

Great work, I loved your information about these Casio watches. I didn’t realize there was a scientific calculator but now I want one. My prized watch is my VDB-1000, touch screen data bank, which I bought new. It contains a calculator as well as things like a full calendar view of the month and a scrolling world map, on the dot matrix screen. Unfortunately, my screen no longer accept input touches. Any advice on how to repair it? The module works otherwise. I also have a second copy, with a working touch screen, branded as ‘Micronta’ which I believe would have been sold through Radio Shack stores. I would love to get the working pieces from each into a single working, Casio branded unit. Other than difficulty keying information in view the touch screen, it was flawed in that he had no illumination. Best of luck and thanks again!

[@fisherh9111]

Hi Nick, any chance you'll be doing a video a Robinson R66 soon? All these turbine helicopters on your channel are too high end for me. I need to see the Datsun 180B of turbine powered helicopters in action!

[@wuaw2011]

Wow 🤯 I’m with Gorilla on this one. How did it come to this?!

[@valley_robot]

searching for a digitech 50 right now

[@snishat]

Hi any way to buy databank 50, DB 520A. I try to find it but unable to find it anywhere

[@NickMurray]

There are lots of them on eBay?

[@zaidahmed7695]

are you sale any

[@sodachanga673]

I had a cmd40 still in the transparent plastic packing that I unfortunately gifted to my little cousin who immediately broke it 😢. I wonder why would Casio stop making wrist remote watches which was arguably a very useful feature and continue making relatively useless for time databank watches 🤔

[@wizpin]

lol, another one, i am not allone. I have CA53W and a 991.1 targa 😂😎

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Casio - Sky Walker - 1990

[@csm101000]

I've been struggling to find an answer but I want to own Mr bean's exact watch, do you know which models he had exactly, I thought you'd be the man to ask thank you

[@NickMurray]

He wears a Sanyo-V (chome)

[@GullmanRollger666]

Nick, do you ever wear several calculator watches at the same time just to show off when you leave the house?

[@NickMurray]

you know it

[@andresmattos7541]

You seem to be interested in Japanese technology, I strongly recommend you read about unit 731.

[@NickMurray]

Yes I knew about this as a bit of a history guy 👍

[@andresmattos7541]

​@@NickMurrayjaps were more brutal than the nazis

[@alphathechicken]

Hello Nick, great video! are you planning to make a video on the latest 911 updates?

[@NickMurray]

Yes when I get time in the 992.2

[@arvindchandra2202]

Need some more deviated stitching videos pls .. surprisingly my phone tells the time so pls can we go back to some Porsche videos… even a car wash with your famous cloth would be okay

[@Dr_MattS]

2 watch Murray at the helm. 😂

[@sodachanga673]

Too embarrassed to say how many of those I owned and discarded in early 00s 😢

[@CovKid2K10]

Shame that all of these watches have a finite life. I’ll stick to my mechanical watch collection thank you

[@Miguelito0oO]

So nerdy🤓

[@khunopie9159]

I'm a cool dude, but not a wears a gold Casio calc watch with a vintage beer shirt and skinny jeans cool dude.

[@Poorschedriver]

Sitting here thinking, god this guy is a fucking loser.... but here I am watching the video LOL Thanks Nick for showcasing something I never knew was collectible. I gotta say that analog one is definitely the coolest shit, especially for 1984.