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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