Comment by eddieroger
9 years ago
I lusted after a Timex Datalink so hard in the late '90s. Still being a teenager, I didn't have any data worthy of actually walking around like that (nor the money to buy one), but I was the kid who loved gadgets and that was the gadget in my mind. I'd all but forgot about it until you mentioned it, despite walking around with an Apple Watch every day for the last year.
I had different alarms set on it for waking up, to getting to work on time, when work was over, and getting home, and going to bed. I never figured out how to make an app for it but it didn't have much memory on it and only so many buttons.
These days I am sick and disabled and cannot afford an Apple Watch and don't have an iPhone to work with it.
I remember stores didn't carry the Timex Datalink anymore, I had to find it at Walmart Jewelry sections and have them call different stores to see who had it in stock.