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    From J. P. Gilliver@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, January 31, 2026 15:19:00
    Subject: rambling (was: Re: Any point to password protecting the bios if only 3 people in the household, and 2 know nothing about bioses?)

    On 2026/1/31 14:39:42, John wrote:

    [old wristwatch]

    On that note, mine is possibly 1980-ish. Maybe. And, contrary to what
    I've mentioned up-thread, it is almost certainly LCD, not L*E*D. I am
    fairly sure that the numbers were black not red.

    The LED ones, you had to press a button to see the time - the LEDs (as
    they're actually a light _source_) consumed too much power to be on all
    the time. (The watches were just uniformly black when you weren't
    pressing a button.) Allegedly there was one model where if you pressed
    two of the buttons at once, it shorted the cell.


    It's still not worth stuffing into a bank vault's private box nor the
    effort of a thief to explore my house to try to find it so I'm
    probably not going to invest in high-end, robotic cameras and other
    James Bond gadgetry.

    Although ........ the idea is mildly appealing as a fun project. I'd
    need to investigate stuff and that's always fun. :)

    J.




    J.




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