That was bloody BRILLIANT! Nobody seems to have any love for late 80s watches and i remember at school there were 2 distinct camps - the nerds wearing Casios, or the cool kids wearing the new fangled Swatch. I was in the nerd camp and my databank calculator watch is STILL my essential watch when on holiday. Got all my phone numbers, time zones, alarms, exchange rates etc. I could literally lose my phone and still survive! Gotta love old casios.
They all had their time and place. Todays kids will have no real memories of watches other than a smart one which is a tragedy. I have done a few Casio videos now and my most successful one was of a Casio melody alarm watch. I think it did well purely on nostalgia.
My 80s nerd watch had 12 melodies, but some douche nicked it during a PE lesson (I'm still feeling the emotion!) :-( I find a countdown timer is still really handy to have on your wrist. :-)
Casio Databanks here also.. Along with watches that were both analogue and digital and then a few that had digital hands also. Looking for some modern equivalents, I don't fancy scraping 30 years of someones skin cells out of a used one.
DTMF tones are still used in the legacy telephone system, and are also used in certain amateur radio applications. And yeah, that's nostalgic, for sure!
Such a great time travel! We are at the same age, I remember this tone dial thing very well. You made a huge smile in my face with this video. Thanks!!
This will work on any phone that has a dial tone (so won't work from a mobile). On very old phones you can hear the dial tone when you lift the hand set. On modern phones (like the one in your office) you will need to press '0' on the key pad then activate the watch. When storing the phone numbers in the watch drop the '0'. This will work and can call mobile phones...but only if your phone has a dial tone. Hope that makes sense.
No my office phone has a dial tone when lifting off the base. Its because its a new digital BT line over internet rather than the old way. We as a business have been forced to go that way believe it or not. Was not a choice.
Never mind Mike. You'll have to keep your eyes peeled for old style phones when you visit your relatives ect & ask if it's OK to use their phone. Its amazing when it works.
You can store a lot of numbers on it plus a whole memo system with appointments, tasks etc. In its day all would have been very useful until we went digital which changed every aspect of technology.
This last week I refurbished an early 80's Pulsar diver, new crystal, tidying up the dial and hands, polished the case and hot water dipped the Seiko plastic strap and man it looks like new. I am going to sort out a new facebook account and just use it for the group as I am missing you lot so much lol Been regulating a 1950's Kienzle pocket watch tonite, running a touch fast but nailed it spot on and doing a resto on a quite nice Seiko 7009, chapter ring was snapped and the date window surround was loose so been using my GS cement to affix them both on and giving the case, cavity, Seiko Japan original bracelet a thorough clean and putting it all back together tomorrow and another Seiko salvaged :D
Sounds like you are doing some good work there. Yes please just set up a dummy account on FB for groups. I recommend this to people who want to avoid the app. You can add as much or as little on a profile as you want. No one will see it unless you add friends anyway. One note please put a picture on your account , can be of a watch. Just when we admin the group if an account looks too bland we can mistake it for a "bot "account (trust me there are plenty) There are a few very easy join questions to answer and that is for us to know you are a human being on the other end!
I have a few Casiotron which are the first Casios made. Nice solid watches that are a contrast to resin ones like this in the video, 70s Digitals I am always keeping my eyes peeled for. The early stuff being cutting edge at the time meant they were solid in their construction.
Great follow on video, I watched this follow-on after watching the earlier one. Be great to see some more vintage LCD Casio and Seiko 80s/90s restorations like this!
Never had a phone dial Casio only had the databank which used to store 50 wow telephone numbers and names. I think that was it. Never give up. Well done Mike. I am sure it would work perfect on a bt landlines into the wall but not many of us still have one.
Thats fantastic. I used to have a thing the size of a small calculator that you would open up and could enter all kinds into it. Probably still have it in the attic somewhere.
Great old Casio! I believe the brown debris in the speaker is disintegrated sponge type foam, a sort of diffuser like the foam found on old Walkman style headphones.
I remember the old days (1989/1990). I bought a Panasonic answering machine. You could call it from another phone sending your code via a little device in order to listen to recorded messages. I bought that watch and you can imagine people's faces when they saw someone calling from the phone box placing his watch on the handset.
i used to have that watch ; the phone cabins in france you could dial up with the dtmf function and not have to pay ; they only locked the dialer not the tonality ; so that was literaly my first 'hack' ; i must have been around 12 or 13 when i had it in the late 80s real early 90s ... loved it
Not sure if it's that you're in an area that's updated or just that you're using VOIP, but there are still standard touchtone phones around. More specifically at my parent's house.
Can't remember the brand, but I used to have a watch that worked as a universal TV remote. The fun I used to have in classes where the teacher rolled out the TV!
I remember Casio having one and then a few cheap knock off versions. I had one recently in a job lot but desoldered all the caps off it as I needed them on another project.
That's awesome that you were able to find the speaker for it. I enjoyed your restoration of the two Casio watches, even though I never cared for Casio brand, it was still a good video. 👍👍 Edit: for Electronics like this and cleaning 91% to 99% Rubbing/Isopropyl Alcohol is what you want to use to clean it as it won't harm the parts in anyway and evaporates without a trace. 👌
Thanks, I do clean boards etc in 99% IPA but this speaker I didnt want to risk in the ultrasonic with the wire bonds to the speaker being so thin. Once having the donor I don't want to break it. Hence cleaning it the hard way. Pleased you can appreciate videos like this one. thanks
Those are the DTMF frequencies. Payphones, and alanloge Landlines did work well with them. I "cracked" a Payphone in the early days when I got a similar device, and dialed a number that way. Just a month later, the payphone was replaced with a newer type which did not do that anymore. Seems the telco company got hold of it. 😞 PTT was it back then.
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Started looking for watches from the 80's where they started making them more than just a watch. I had several Casio Databanks and actually used to store phone numbers in the watch. Noticed the modern ones currently on sale have a smaller screen. where is the alarm this week and next week display?
I can remember this audio tone dialling technology from the 90s unfortunately I can't remember the device I used to do it but I definitely used it. I used to have a Psion organiser could that have been it?
Just got one in great condition after years of searching! Love this watch. Do you know how to reset the code? I accidentally set a new code and I can't remember what I set! I'm guessing removing the battery would reset it?
Would have been good having one of these back in the 80s early 90s to get Free phone calls from payphones. Lots of friends used the DTMF chips you could buy at the time to bypass the telephone exchange charge system using DTMF tones down the microphone on the handset. Really good when it used to cost £1 for 10 seconds to New Zealand from UK.😂😂😂
I thought was a great video! It has inspired to give a quartz movement a go actually. As a side note, my first Digital watch was likely in the late 70’s - that being a red LED Trafalgar. I was actually searching for one recently. It frustrated me even as a kid because I had to ride no-handed on my bike just to see the time… so I shot it with my air rifle 😂
I have a few Trafalgar LED, Love them. They come up often on eBay but most are not running and its a 50/50 if they will with a clean. Often the battery has been in there since the 80s and ruined everything.
@@MyRetroWatches Still waiting. I've got today's emails, but none of my back record of receipts, statements, etc! I can see it is there, occupying 239 MB of my 25 GB, but I can't access it - waiting to hear from Virgin, but they say it might take 28 days!!! AARGH!
back in those days I could remember phone numbers as we had do manually dial them. In todays world if I now lost my phone I could only call my work or at a push my wife. Oh how times have changed.
Mike, your video has been very enjoyable and terrifying at the same time. I feel good and disgusted at the end. What a feeling, hahahahaha! Keep up the great work on the videos. Best regards
haha I know, when editing I was thinking people are not going to like this. I could have actually gone much closer in with the microscope but decided we all didn't need to see it! I have found dead lice before in watches...
That was bloody BRILLIANT!
Nobody seems to have any love for late 80s watches and i remember at school there were 2 distinct camps - the nerds wearing Casios, or the cool kids wearing the new fangled Swatch.
I was in the nerd camp and my databank calculator watch is STILL my essential watch when on holiday. Got all my phone numbers, time zones, alarms, exchange rates etc. I could literally lose my phone and still survive! Gotta love old casios.
They all had their time and place. Todays kids will have no real memories of watches other than a smart one which is a tragedy. I have done a few Casio videos now and my most successful one was of a Casio melody alarm watch. I think it did well purely on nostalgia.
@@MyRetroWatches ahh yes, I didn't have a melody but it's on my list to pickup ( they all did "the yellow rose of Texas" lol ).
My 80s nerd watch had 12 melodies, but some douche nicked it during a PE lesson (I'm still feeling the emotion!) :-( I find a countdown timer is still really handy to have on your wrist. :-)
@@Jimbaloidatron I never thought of that, a rolling count down timer is a great way to find a lost watch, just wait for it to beep!
Casio Databanks here also.. Along with watches that were both analogue and digital and then a few that had digital hands also.
Looking for some modern equivalents, I don't fancy scraping 30 years of someones skin cells out of a used one.
I used to have one and can testify that it never missed one call attempt. It's really cool. I had forgotten about these.❤
Never saw one of these in the wild. Thats crazy. In the 90's this could have been a phreaks dream!
DTMF tones are still used in the legacy telephone system, and are also used in certain amateur radio applications. And yeah, that's nostalgic, for sure!
Such a great time travel! We are at the same age, I remember this tone dial thing very well. You made a huge smile in my face with this video. Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it! all a trip down memory lane. Trust Casio to have all these features!
Loved the video! The sound brings back a lot of good memories from my childhood as well! Thank you for sharing!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes wonderful to see and hear it again, there was remote control Casio and data Bank with running Matrix memo on top etc etc thank you 🙏🏼
Brings memories from the 90s with my watch
Never seen these before, so retro 👌👊🏻
This will work on any phone that has a dial tone (so won't work from a mobile). On very old phones you can hear the dial tone when you lift the hand set. On modern phones (like the one in your office) you will need to press '0' on the key pad then activate the watch. When storing the phone numbers in the watch drop the '0'. This will work and can call mobile phones...but only if your phone has a dial tone. Hope that makes sense.
No my office phone has a dial tone when lifting off the base. Its because its a new digital BT line over internet rather than the old way. We as a business have been forced to go that way believe it or not. Was not a choice.
Never mind Mike. You'll have to keep your eyes peeled for old style phones when you visit your relatives ect & ask if it's OK to use their phone. Its amazing when it works.
@@tomevans6582 I wouldn't bother because all landlines will be switched of in the next 18 months or so
Great videdo as always. I had a buddy that had one of these watches back in the day. Sure brings back a lot of good memories.
Had this watch… nice for that fast tone dialing. Wish I still had it
Never understood what this watch does, very nice demonstration, totally get it now. I bet It was a pretty cool feature in the '90.
You can store a lot of numbers on it plus a whole memo system with appointments, tasks etc. In its day all would have been very useful until we went digital which changed every aspect of technology.
I ebayed one of these with nickel or steel plated. And all function working properly, also the sound. Its a lovely watch.
Brings back memories. Thanks Mike
Really enjoyed seeing the Casio digital again.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This last week I refurbished an early 80's Pulsar diver, new crystal, tidying up the dial and hands, polished the case and hot water dipped the Seiko plastic strap and man it looks like new. I am going to sort out a new facebook account and just use it for the group as I am missing you lot so much lol Been regulating a 1950's Kienzle pocket watch tonite, running a touch fast but nailed it spot on and doing a resto on a quite nice Seiko 7009, chapter ring was snapped and the date window surround was loose so been using my GS cement to affix them both on and giving the case, cavity, Seiko Japan original bracelet a thorough clean and putting it all back together tomorrow and another Seiko salvaged :D
Sounds like you are doing some good work there. Yes please just set up a dummy account on FB for groups. I recommend this to people who want to avoid the app. You can add as much or as little on a profile as you want. No one will see it unless you add friends anyway. One note please put a picture on your account , can be of a watch. Just when we admin the group if an account looks too bland we can mistake it for a "bot "account (trust me there are plenty) There are a few very easy join questions to answer and that is for us to know you are a human being on the other end!
Great bit of fun, takes me back too. Keep the great content coming Mike.
Thanks Darren. I can't leave a watch unfinished! I need help...
@@MyRetroWatches I’m the same with a project, it’s the completists in use both. 🤷🏼♂️ something I’m proud off, to be fair 😊
Its a good quality but I get obsessive on searching for the parts or donors....
Great job mike I like the great never give up attitude 👍and it made me giggle for sure please keep it up
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice. Aesthetically, 1976-1986 was the golden decade for digitals, but some of the tech in the 90's was cool for sure.
I have a few Casiotron which are the first Casios made. Nice solid watches that are a contrast to resin ones like this in the video, 70s Digitals I am always keeping my eyes peeled for. The early stuff being cutting edge at the time meant they were solid in their construction.
DTMF.....A trip down memory lane
Great follow on video, I watched this follow-on after watching the earlier one. Be great to see some more vintage LCD Casio and Seiko 80s/90s restorations like this!
Thanks for watching both buddies. Glad you enjoyed them.
Nice to see a digital watch again in one of your video's.
I still have a really cool Seiko ana digi to do that looks like it has a speaker on the glass! hopefully will be on the channel this year.
Amazing technology at that time ❤🎉
Cool watch 👍
Never had a phone dial Casio only had the databank which used to store 50 wow telephone numbers and names. I think that was it. Never give up. Well done Mike. I am sure it would work perfect on a bt landlines into the wall but not many of us still have one.
Thats fantastic. I used to have a thing the size of a small calculator that you would open up and could enter all kinds into it. Probably still have it in the attic somewhere.
It’s still a cool watch!
Great old Casio! I believe the brown debris in the speaker is disintegrated sponge type foam, a sort of diffuser like the foam found on old Walkman style headphones.
Thanks sounds logical and it’s better than thinking it’s skin cells!
I was king of the Casios in my year at school 😅
I had this watch... my father gifted me, but I never knew how to dial a number ...thank for this video...sir
today i repaired a casion solar from the 90s this one is cool to love it !!! hahaha i have the same phone on my desk ....
I think that case back closure system is genius.
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Hi, I'm Rhys Barber from Audiology Associates!!
I remember the old days (1989/1990). I bought a Panasonic answering machine. You could call it from another phone sending your code via a little device in order to listen to recorded messages. I bought that watch and you can imagine people's faces when they saw someone calling from the phone box placing his watch on the handset.
i used to have that watch ;
the phone cabins in france you could dial up with the dtmf function and not have to pay ; they only locked the dialer not the tonality ; so that was literaly my first 'hack' ; i must have been around 12 or 13 when i had it in the late 80s real early 90s ... loved it
How good was that! It would have been great to call your friends for free back in those days!
One of your best video 😊 Ivan - Croatia
Glad you liked it!
That is a cool watch
Reminds me of the modem dial out tone sequence for connecting to the early internet.
The classic dial up modem! remember those days well.
Not sure if it's that you're in an area that's updated or just that you're using VOIP, but there are still standard touchtone phones around. More specifically at my parent's house.
They probably are still around but I don't have a home phone and my work office is all new kit and internet phone based which is now the new norm.
En 1990, un compañero mío de la escuela tenía uno!!
Real fun video Mike, I was so engrossed watching, my tea nearly went cold, and I mean tea on a plate not in a cup LOL
haha. it probably put you off your tea too. Pleased to see other people still using the word tea instead of dinner!
Great video and very fun!
Thank you 🤗
It does work I had one - it doesn't work on digital lines it would have to be analog lines or lans lines
Can't remember the brand, but I used to have a watch that worked as a universal TV remote. The fun I used to have in classes where the teacher rolled out the TV!
I remember those. Hi-Fi shops hated these watches. As kids used them to crank up the volume of the TV to the max.
I remember Casio having one and then a few cheap knock off versions. I had one recently in a job lot but desoldered all the caps off it as I needed them on another project.
I just looked it up, it was the Casio CMD-40 that I had
fantastic!!!
That's awesome that you were able to find the speaker for it. I enjoyed your restoration of the two Casio watches, even though I never cared for Casio brand, it was still a good video. 👍👍
Edit: for Electronics like this and cleaning 91% to 99% Rubbing/Isopropyl Alcohol is what you want to use to clean it as it won't harm the parts in anyway and evaporates without a trace. 👌
Thanks, I do clean boards etc in 99% IPA but this speaker I didnt want to risk in the ultrasonic with the wire bonds to the speaker being so thin. Once having the donor I don't want to break it. Hence cleaning it the hard way.
Pleased you can appreciate videos like this one. thanks
Those are the DTMF frequencies. Payphones, and alanloge Landlines did work well with them. I "cracked" a Payphone in the early days when I got a similar device, and dialed a number that way. Just a month later, the payphone was replaced with a newer type which did not do that anymore. Seems the telco company got hold of it. 😞 PTT was it back then.
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Interesting, I never even heard of that tech.
Hi friend. I find your videos invaluable. Have you ever restored a 7016?
Started looking for watches from the 80's where they started making them more than just a watch. I had several Casio Databanks and actually used to store phone numbers in the watch.
Noticed the modern ones currently on sale have a smaller screen. where is the alarm this week and next week display?
I remember "impressing" my then-girlfriend with one of these back in the 90s. 😁
Good lad. Hopefully it worked.
I can remember this audio tone dialling technology from the 90s unfortunately I can't remember the device I used to do it but I definitely used it. I used to have a Psion organiser could that have been it?
Can't remember which videos I already saw, signing in with my other account :)
I remembered this casio, it can dail phone number..so advance that time.
And now we wait for video number 180 on this channel :)
Just got one in great condition after years of searching! Love this watch. Do you know how to reset the code? I accidentally set a new code and I can't remember what I set! I'm guessing removing the battery would reset it?
This watch can dial calls in some public pay phone back in the days without any coins!!!
Would have been good having one of these back in the 80s early 90s to get Free phone calls from payphones.
Lots of friends used the DTMF chips you could buy at the time to bypass the telephone exchange charge system using DTMF tones down the microphone on the handset.
Really good when it used to cost £1 for 10 seconds to New Zealand from UK.😂😂😂
Brilliant!
I thought was a great video! It has inspired to give a quartz movement a go actually. As a side note, my first Digital watch was likely in the late 70’s - that being a red LED Trafalgar. I was actually searching for one recently. It frustrated me even as a kid because I had to ride no-handed on my bike just to see the time… so I shot it with my air rifle 😂
I have a few Trafalgar LED, Love them. They come up often on eBay but most are not running and its a 50/50 if they will with a clean. Often the battery has been in there since the 80s and ruined everything.
Guess I cant' put the numbers for the '80 pop song "Jenny Jenny" by Tommy Tutone? No worries. ✌
This should work on a public phone box
Did that watch default to 1985 on the date?
Think so yes.
Can you set the alarm so it plays a number rather than the usual Casio beep?
No sadly not.
good video
i think that nasty junk was degraded speaker foam
Phone pranking! 😂
haha
Coincidence! Virgin media's email system crashed on Sunday evening, and I'm still trying to recover my saved data!
sorry to hear this. good luck and hope you get it all back.
@@MyRetroWatches Still waiting. I've got today's emails, but none of my back record of receipts, statements, etc! I can see it is there, occupying 239 MB of my 25 GB, but I can't access it - waiting to hear from Virgin, but they say it might take 28 days!!! AARGH!
I'm 52 now so remember the calculator watches I had a casio ca 85 if i remember correctly
isn't it the watch used in Knight Rider by Micheal Knight himself? aka David Hasselhoff?
EDIT: i just checked and no it's not.
Did you ever try this from a public phone box?
That donor watch was obviously owned by a bear at one point. So much fur.
To be fair if you have not watched the first video, that one was far worse than the donor! it was an equally sickening task to clean it on video
I had the data bank for recording phone numbers to help with my goldfish memory. 🤣🤣
back in those days I could remember phone numbers as we had do manually dial them. In todays world if I now lost my phone I could only call my work or at a push my wife. Oh how times have changed.
Bleep.😂.
needs a bit of a clean you say XD
If you had not watched the first video, this donor is actually cleaner! absolutely sickening....
Mike, your video has been very enjoyable and terrifying at the same time. I feel good and disgusted at the end. What a feeling, hahahahaha! Keep up the great work on the videos. Best regards
haha I know, when editing I was thinking people are not going to like this. I could have actually gone much closer in with the microscope but decided we all didn't need to see it! I have found dead lice before in watches...
This is the kind of casio watches i want back, now casio just produce gshocks 😢
3:45 mmmh i like to smoke this :D
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The speaker looks like an ear wax cleaning tuturial! yuk lol
haha. Yep totally gross.
🤢🤮 should have a gross content warning.
True but this donor was actually cleaner than the original one. You should watch the first video!
Awesome great….conversation starter. 🫣. 👍