Daily Giz Wiz 45: Casio TE 2500 Dictionary Watch
Episode 45 of the podcast
| Subject: | Review of Casio TE 2500 Dictionary Watch |
| Released: | Friday 21 April 2006 |
| Length: | about 11 minutes |
| Download file: | dgw0045.mp3 (5.1 MB) |
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Link: Nerd Watch Museum
From 1983, a Casio watch with a built-in dictionary of several languages including English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese.Leo MacLaporte
Leo does a Scottish accent in the intro, and the only clue to what the accent is, is Leo calling himself Leo MacLaporte.
Mad Trips
Bill Gaines had an arrangement with Dick whereby Dick would try out gadgets first which Dick would pay for. With this particular gadget, Bill Gaines bought 30 of them to give to his staff on a Mad staff trip to Italy. In the English dictionary on the watch, the word "MAD" was followed by "MAGAZINE". Gaines refused to believe that Dick had not got Casio to engineer this watch specially for Mad.
Mad Customer Care
One subscriber from Haiti cancelled his Mad subscription. Bill Gaines took the entire Mad staff to go to the customer's house in Haiti to beg him to renew his subscription, which he did. Since then, Gaines would take the Mad staff on a trip every year, all expenses paid.
Bill was also meticulous about the quality of Mad products and accessories. If he got more than a few complaints, he would cancel the product.
Bill was also meticulous about the quality of Mad products and accessories. If he got more than a few complaints, he would cancel the product.
Trip to Hoboken
Leo promises that one day he'll take Dick on a trip to Hoboken, all subway expenses paid.
(source: insidedgw.vox.com)
