Once the dream of every schoolboy, the digital watch is now about as popular as the Gary Glitter back-catalogue. Many scholars have debated the reasons behind the virtually instant decline of the once-mighty electronic timing device but most questions remain unanswered; how do people now survive without knowing the time while 200 feet under water, what happens if it’s getting to dusk and you need a handy back-light to find your way home, what do cheap lazy uncles buy their nephews these days, and more importantly what happens if you need to do an emergency mathematical calculation while travelling on the bus? We may never know but the shock waves from the day the Casio Calculator DF342a+ first quarter sales figures first hit Reuters, or ‘Slightly Dim Wednesday’ as it was known, still reverberate around the City.
* It should be noted that ‘Slightly Dim Wednesday’ was in fact a Thursday, a discrepancy caused by the Casio CEO getting confused about how long he had to hold the middle button in to change the day, a simple mistake which had caused him to live in central European time for several months.
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