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It saw almost a decade of innovation in personal electronics and style.

The Multi Planner is an easy way to track four time zones at a glance. The sunburst dial adds a touch of elegance that they don't really do anymore on their specialized watches.

Which Casio line did you wear the most during the 80s and 90s? F-series? W-series? Data Bank? G-Shock? Something else? Which Casios did you notice others around you wearing?

I'm trying to get an idea of what was most popular back then compared to today. Feel free to share your experiences (no matter how long ago this was posted). 👍

It's been pretty easy to find this year. And three more of them just came in lol.

When I found out about the DW-5000r I knew I had to have one. I wanted a back-to-basics G-Shock experience and it's not gonna get off easy. So far he's holding up like a champ. Battle scars incoming.

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I wasn't a cellular user until a few years later so I never had one of these but I love that it still works almost 30 years later. End of an era.

Tomorrow T-Mobile will be shutting down their 2G network so I wanted to use this phone one last time. It's one of my fave Motorola designs.

Back in the day Radio Shack made a battery adapter for AAA alkalines that you could use in a pinch if you needed some juice.

Casio's more advanced looking watches just hit differently, like the menu style display on this Wave Ceptor e-Databank.

By now a lot of those high-grip coatings that they gave some phones in the mid-2000s have gone all sticky due to rubber reversion. Here's how you solve that.

Put some baking soda into a bowl and pour a little water into it and stir. You want to make sure it has a very thick consistency. Too wet and it might leak into your phone (better to disassemble it).

Smear it onto the sticky surfaces and wait 5-10 minutes. Then use your fingers to rub the goop into the surface with moderate pressure. You'll know it's absorbing the sticky residue when the goop starts to turn yellow. Wipe it off and repeat as necessary until it's no longer sticky.

If you didn't disassemble the phone you can use a toothpick to get all the dried baking soda out of all the nooks and crannies. Once it's dried it'll crumble away pretty easily.

Eventually you'll be left with just the smooth metal or plastic surface underneath the removed rubber coating, looking good as new. I did these two phones in less than an hour.

Upsets, comebacks, late drama. Oh and this 32 year old Casio still runs great.

80s tech is 🔥

I love the ornate design on this Data Bank, but it was never sold outside of Japan so I had to import it.

I'd been looking for this one more than any marlin, Cosmo phase, Casiotron, etc. This is peak Casio to me.

A lot has changed in 40+ years.