We have seeen this watch surface in Europe, Asia and North America a little more frequently than the Data 2000. There are actually two varieties of this keyboard: the UK01-0020 keyboard has 61 buttons the UK01-0010 has 62! The extra button toggles the alternate keyset of Kanji characters, obviously intended for the Japanese market. View a picture of the UC-2000 mounted in its keyboard here. Like the Data-2000, it communicates with a pocket-sized keyboard except this one is beige in color and labeled the UC-2100.
DATAGRAPH REPAIR SERIES
The watch was but one accessory in a signficant ensemble called the UC-2000 Series Wrist Information System. UW01-0010)Ī more traditional looking “nerd watch,” the UC-2000 was equipped with an gray bezel and stainless steel band. UC-2000 aka Wrist Information System 1984 (Cal. Seiko USA (Coserv) couldn’t service the watch because replacement parts were not available. Our efforts to find a repair service for this watch were unsuccessful. We’ve owned several faulty Data-2000 watches–almost always, the communication failures resulted from a problem in the watch, NOT the keyboard. While doing this, flip the switch on the keyboard several times.
Keyboard and watch not communicating? This might be hard to fix, but after inserting fresh batteries, try this: mount the watch in the keyboard and press all four buttons at the same time. Enable it by pressing the leftmost and rightmost buttons at the same time. Is your watch quiet? Perhaps the alarm is disabled. Then check the LCD, the display should read 12:00. Take a tweezer or any small metal object and touch this contact and the battery at the same time. Take a look for a tiny round hole near the edge of the watch with a gold contact. When you replace the battery, you might need to perform an “All Clear” on the CMOS to get the watch working again. The watch requires a BR2325 lithium watch battery the keyboard uses a CR2016 battery. The Data 2000 stores two memos, each with a capacity of 1,000 characters hence the “2000”. It was sold in a sleak, silver cardboard box with orange trim and included a large instruction book the watch and keyboard were set in black sponge material. Miscellaneous Information: Seiko’s MSRP on this watch was $295 USD. The other buttons are intuitive for anyone who’s been around a keyboard. Holding the CNT darkens the display pressing both the SFT and CNT lightens it. There’s also a handy CNT button to adjust the contrast of the watch. You can press either the CAL button for calculator mode M-A for Memo A or M-B for Memo B. The watch is placed into the “Transmission Circuit” of the keyboard and the user presses the transmit button on the face of the watch. Data is transferred (2,048 bits/second with a ~32 KHz carrier frequency) and the watch receives the data for storage. Communication occurs via a series of magnetic pulses from each side. Current flows through the loops, turning each into a magnet. There’s a small metal loop in the watch and another in the keyboard. How does it work? This is interesting part: data is transmitted via “electromagnetic coupling”. What does it do? Aside from telling time and fulfilling the traditional chronograph duties, the Data 2000 can also store memos, appointments and perform calculator functions using the accompanying keyboard (model no.
And the keyboard docking station made the ensemble the centerpiece of the nerd watch collection at the time. The dot matrix display, matte black finish and those bright orange buttons gave it such a high-tech look even for 1990.
I first discovered this watch in Chinatown, NYC about 7 or 8 years after it was initially released and was stunned. Our effort here is to provide a complete listing of these models. The D409 was a successful model worldwide and was only the beginning of Seiko’s complex, “computer-esque” watch line. The display was a novel dot-matrix LCD capable of displaying easy to read alphanumeric characters the user input data via four pushers on the sides of the watch and there was enough storage to hold seven “channels” of messages. The D409 was their first model to offer on-board storage.
DATAGRAPH REPAIR PC
When we experienced “computer fever” in the 1980s, Seiko wasted no time in releasing a product line which capitalized on the PC market. Seiko has been a long-time innovator in the world of horology–their digital watch line started way back in 1973.
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