what was it programmed with?
What was it programmed with?
Ian Robinson
Michael Reyes
Inb4 gentoo
Ayden Taylor
probably just assembler for whatever microcontroller drives it, probably something very simple like a PIC or indigenous Casio equivalent
Joseph Ortiz
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Easton Smith
Allah's will.
Connor Jackson
It's likely all done in hardware. A microcontroller is overkill for a watch even today and they were bigger,more expensive, and a lot more power hungry in the 80s.
Start with a crystal oscillator at some frequency that can be easily divided down to seconds. Divide down with binary counters (D-flip flops in sequence). More counters for minutes, hours, days. A bunch of AND,and OR gates to get the appropriate 7-segment digits to light up.
Nolan Green
in the early 70s maybe, but by 1991? not really, you definitely still might not be wrong, but a microcontroller makes more sense especially since the F-91W logic is pretty much entirely contained in a single chip
Nathaniel Peterson
Machine language
Joseph Stewart
microcode