DCP on Nostr: Good Evening, Frens, Romans, and Countrymen... Lend me your digital ears?🤔🧐 I ...
Good Evening, Frens, Romans, and Countrymen... Lend me your digital ears?🤔🧐
I am clueless as to what brought this topic to mind this afternoon, but here's a short, autobiographical insight into inventor and author Duncan Cary Palmer, i.e., yours truly.😜🤣
BTW, this short, true story is Original to nostr, published here for the very first time anywhere.
It's a little know fact that I, D.C.P., am the inventor of the Digital Watch.
Yes, you heard that right. Here's how that happened (or, perhaps more accurately, DIDN'T happen, due to circumstances beyond my control at the time).
I've always had a grand imagination, and read voraciously from the time I knew how. Tom Swift Jr., boy inventor, was one of my fictional heroes. So it's probably not too surprising that, as a teen, sitting in my own bedroom during the late 1960's, I came up with the concept for a digital watch.
I began sketching possible circuits for the thing sometime in 1968 while on vacation with my folks in Austria. After so many decades, I only recall a few details; my design incorporated a seven-segment LED display sequenced by RTL (Resistor-Transistor Logic).
Fleshing out the design the following year, I probably referred extensively to my copy of Don Lancaster's "RTL Cookbook."
Don (RIP) is another of my heroes, only in Real Life... His writing and projects inspired me to what later became an engineering career, as I was never quite able to support my family as an inventor.
As for the Digital Watch; I was naught but an impoverished teen, dreaming away on my own with no backing or support or resources of any kind to turn my idea into a reality.
https://www.gq.com/story/hamilton-puslar-comeback
Because I was unable to implement and market a watch, it was both a validation of my thinking and a bitter pill to swallow when in 1970, Hamilton announced its red LED Pulsar.
Sadly, there's no one left alive who can attest to the fact that I indeed invented the Digital Watch; I know my Mom (RIP) was proud of me at the time, and when Hamilton came out with their timepiece, Mom of course told all her friends that I had the idea first.
Follow me for other curious, true, and impossible to verify stories...😜🤣😂😁👍
I am clueless as to what brought this topic to mind this afternoon, but here's a short, autobiographical insight into inventor and author Duncan Cary Palmer, i.e., yours truly.😜🤣
BTW, this short, true story is Original to nostr, published here for the very first time anywhere.
It's a little know fact that I, D.C.P., am the inventor of the Digital Watch.
Yes, you heard that right. Here's how that happened (or, perhaps more accurately, DIDN'T happen, due to circumstances beyond my control at the time).
I've always had a grand imagination, and read voraciously from the time I knew how. Tom Swift Jr., boy inventor, was one of my fictional heroes. So it's probably not too surprising that, as a teen, sitting in my own bedroom during the late 1960's, I came up with the concept for a digital watch.
I began sketching possible circuits for the thing sometime in 1968 while on vacation with my folks in Austria. After so many decades, I only recall a few details; my design incorporated a seven-segment LED display sequenced by RTL (Resistor-Transistor Logic).
Fleshing out the design the following year, I probably referred extensively to my copy of Don Lancaster's "RTL Cookbook."
Don (RIP) is another of my heroes, only in Real Life... His writing and projects inspired me to what later became an engineering career, as I was never quite able to support my family as an inventor.
As for the Digital Watch; I was naught but an impoverished teen, dreaming away on my own with no backing or support or resources of any kind to turn my idea into a reality.
https://www.gq.com/story/hamilton-puslar-comeback
Because I was unable to implement and market a watch, it was both a validation of my thinking and a bitter pill to swallow when in 1970, Hamilton announced its red LED Pulsar.
Sadly, there's no one left alive who can attest to the fact that I indeed invented the Digital Watch; I know my Mom (RIP) was proud of me at the time, and when Hamilton came out with their timepiece, Mom of course told all her friends that I had the idea first.
Follow me for other curious, true, and impossible to verify stories...😜🤣😂😁👍