We'll be exhibiting at Opensauce next week. The booth will be a re-creation of my basement lab. We'll do live restorations on a bunch of hardware, including Apollo, HP, and the analog computer from the astrotracker. Come say hi in person! Marc & Team

That said, the founder appeared enthusiastic and trying to engineer the watch as best he could, and I hope that they will be successful. I would love to change my mind once I see more evidence of product viability and business stability. In the meantime, exercise caution.

Which does not mean they won't do it eventually - I lacked all of these when I started my first company , and it turned out quite well in the end! Anyhow, at the end of the conversation, I declined their request to do any advertising for the company on my channel at this point.

I had doubts that the company had sufficient engineering and financial resources, and lacked experience and business wherewithal to produce and support the watch they intend to build.

Both appeared OK for this stage of product development, and the design appeared beautiful, at least at the resolution I could see it. However, I have not endorsed the product, nor have I placed an order for the watch. In fact, quite the contrary, I came away with some doubts.

Although I have indeed talked to the person behind the company, I only saw a prototype of the watch via low a resolution Zoom picture, I could not tell if it was functional or not. I also saw a machined prototype watch case - same qualifiers on prototype status and resolution.

Hi all, it has come to my attention that the company Apollo Instruments, which claims that to be developing a DSKY watch, has sent a mass mailing implying that I endorsed the product enthusiastically and am awaiting my watch. This is misleading.

I am leaving X and have moved over to BlueSky. My user name is CuriousMarc and my handle is @curiousmarc.bsky.social (@kenshirriff and @TubeTimeUS have moved over there too)

May the 4th retro-computing hack. I know. There was a wrinkle in space time, and I am one day late 🫤. Hopefully it still counts. Original full length video from 2019 here: https://t.co/XURin6q5UR #Maythe4thBeWithYou #Retro #Computing #Hacks

My Teletypes attempt to sing Jingle Bells for you (you need the sound for this one). And they wish you a very merry #retrotech Christmas!

Happy HP Thanksgiving

At the Hackaday Supercon, just met ⁦@Odd_Jayy⁩

I will be attending and speaking at the Hackaday Supercon in Pasadena, CA Nov 3-5. Come say hi!

1980’s AI at work. This is going to be big.

My converted Panasonic TV is put to good use at @jeriellsworth place. Full video: https://t.co/RVL4eC6sG3

And @kenshirriff and myself will also be speaking tomorrow (Friday) about the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration and the DSKY panel relight, which we will be demonstrating live.

A new HP box-of-goodness was just delivered to the lab! It’s from 1972! US post office delay I guess 🤷‍♂️. What’s in it 🤔? Find out in my latest video https://t.co/Sl70SyXFdT

https://t.co/6UJSXhrgr9

My Nixie frequency counter now goes to 3 GHz thanks to its repaired HP 5254A plugin. Not too shabby for 1964! https://t.co/wpZ9kgWo1C

https://t.co/Vu2gI4P3Qs