remember when these were all the rage? ~ #tech #hardware #technology #retro #vintage #80s

@ChrisPirillo those, and calculator watches !

@ChrisPirillo I had one or two of these. OMG it's a pen AND a CLOCK! 😀 If I remember correctly, one of mine had a stopwatch function which is actually kind of useful.

@ChrisPirillo I still have a gifted digital watch that transformed into a robot.

@ChrisPirillo I wonder if there’s a 1980s corollary to @jwz’s Law of Software Development, where every office gadget eventually expands to include a clock.

@ChrisPirillo they were all the rage at 12:56pm

@ChrisPirillo they were all the rage until the battery ran out

@ChrisPirillo I remember how disappointed I was that it wouldn’t write anything but 7-segment numerals.

@ChrisPirillo @fishbowlkraken 😂😂😂

@ChrisPirillo I got one for my junior high graduation in 1985.

@ChrisPirillo I still have one somewhere, probably with the battery welded into it with gunk...

@ChrisPirillo I still have one somewhere, probably with the battery welded into it with the gunk that leaked out of it in the intervening years

@ChrisPirillo OMG I remember when a nice pen was a great graduation gift. Oh, how times have changed.