Maybe I'm not hardcore enough..

Submitted by plainsmen on March 16, 2011 - 7:58pm

Cause I just don't dig the Computron....They're all over the place and expensive and meh...

Must be that I'm not a real collector or sumphin.  I've had this on my mind for a looooong time. 

BOO!  BOO I SAY ON THE TRON!

WatchCrystals.net
Posted March 16, 2011 - 8:11pm

Eh? Jerin No ese' de "Com-pu-tron, mon?!"

I'll second ' dat!  (ACCUtron, RULES!!!)

:-)

S.cott, the Smartie...

 

Wayne Hanley
Posted March 17, 2011 - 3:06am

 

Ergonomically this watch threw us back into the stone age. It took a wrist to mount it. Then it took a thumb & index finger on the other hand stabilize the watch & push the button to see what time it is. Not too handy for a pilot for sure.

Wayne

geezer_D
Posted March 16, 2011 - 8:15pm

 They look like a Tandy TRS-80 computer from the 80's, but not as hip.

NOVA
Posted March 16, 2011 - 8:32pm

I appreciate them for what they were at the time--new technology and a really mod look.  They are so very 70's.  Those big red crystals are wild.  I wouldn't wear one, but I'm glad to have one in my 70s collection. 

Come on, show it some love!

 

 

NOVA
Posted March 16, 2011 - 9:28pm

No love at all, huh?  So sad.

Geoff Baker
Posted March 16, 2011 - 9:51pm

HRUMPF....

bet they didn't like the AMC Pacer or the Gremlim either Lisa, tastless boors, all of them. I rather like it, in a 70's sort of way. High style in the day, it was, very high style. Huggy Bear had one, I bet!

-gb

shooter144
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:09pm

My best friends dad grafted a Hornet front end onto a Gremlin back half...wicked cool lookin car !!! Blazin bright yellow, 50's Flame job and all !!!! lol hes tryin to find it now !!!! 

Boring sheeples!! the lot of em !!!!    But that Pacer would cook ur groceries while you drove home from the market !!!!!

shooter144
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:05pm

That Thing SCREEEEMS Rayon n Disco !!!!

Well you can tell
by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man
no time to talk
Music loud and women warm
I've been kicked around
since I was born

And now it's all right, it's ok
and you may look the other way
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

Whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin
and everybody shakin'
and were stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
 

NOVA
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:14pm

Oh my god, you know the lyrics to Stayin' Alive.  You must know my husband.  I just asked him if he knows the lyrics and he sang the entire song in a BeeGees voice. 

A few minutes ago he played me Weird Al's version of "Feels Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana at about 200 dbs. 

shooter144
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:17pm

ummm....uhhhhh...well yea, but i googled it to make sure it was right....crikies it played like 5 times an hour for a year or two on the radio, its one of those horrible things that happens to people that is just burrrrrned into their mind forever....

shooter144
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:19pm

And dont ANYONE on here over 40 ACT LIKE YOU DONT KNOW THEM EITHER!!!!!!!!!  nuff said....

Elgin Doug
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:21pm

I will admit to seeing 'Saturday Night Fever', and owning a black Quiana shirt, but THAT'S IT!!!

shooter144
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:37pm

Then you Sir, have repressed memories that will in fact cause you great harm later in life when one day, you will be out in public and just the right beat will be playing....and... well the rest is too horrific to describe.

Elgin Doug
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:43pm

The guys I hung out with scoffed at Disco.  We tended more towards ZZ Topp, Aerosmith, etc.  That's what we listened to in Dave's Gremlin....

Geoff Baker
Posted March 17, 2011 - 5:07am

Doggone it Doug, I KNEW there was a Gremlin invloved, I just knew it! (see above)

-gb

NOVA
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:39pm

After my husband sang the song--word for word, by the way--I said, "John Travolta sang that, right?"  He was so disgusted. 

In case you want a taste of my crazy world, here's a link to the Weird Al song he played for me.  It really is funny.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY

Okay, back to watches before we get busted.  So, about that Computron. . . .

shooter144
Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:49pm

Would rather cut my arm off than wear it but its still way cool and I want one....

WatchCrystals.net
Posted March 16, 2011 - 11:01pm

 Oh...

So we're mainly an (age) 40s to 70s crowd + Jerin (late 30s) and Gary (early 30s) and a few 20 somethings, eh??? I miss the 70s... but NOT the bad (product) design! LOL... Of course the 60s were arguably even worse, except for say watches... and a few other things "designed..." 

And GLAD to hear Lisa's hubby still has his "sense of humor!"

 

:-)   Scott

 

P.S. HAHAHAHA!!!! Like OMG... GREAT ONE, LISA :-) That video blows the doors off of "Like a Surgeon!?" (I knew I should have done Parodys... Or at least wrote them?!?) I cctually had to pause it, 3/4s of the way through, to INHALE! Tell your hubby, THANKS for the laughs!! (Breathe, just breathe! :-)

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted March 17, 2011 - 5:07am

3 styles produced over 2 Years: The N6 and N7's.

2 circuit module designs.

The 229 N6 is Two button operation, the 254 N7 design is single button.

Love it or hate it the 'COMPUTRON' is a part of Bulova Watch Co history and a must have for a Collector.

WatchCrystals.net
Posted March 17, 2011 - 5:48am

 AMAZING... what good product photography can do??? (A Sexy trio... Welcome, to machine...)

 

:-)   Scott

 

NOVA
Posted March 17, 2011 - 9:30am

Hey Fifth, don't I in fact have a fourth style, with the top red crystal? (see picture of mine earlier in thread), or do you consider mine to be an alternate to the third style?  Mine is also all gold rather than two tone, which also distinguishes it from #3.

You see a lot of them on the Bay with an empty groove where the top crystal should be.  Mine is the single button type dated 1977.

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted March 17, 2011 - 11:31am

Nova,

Same Watch, Red insert was an optional 'finish' on the N7 and rarer(?) than the Gold insert - an either or thing.

NOVA
Posted March 17, 2011 - 12:39pm

On the subject of bad 70's design, anyone remember deep pile shag carpet?  We moved into a new house in 1971 and were allowed by the builder to pick our colors.  All the samples were two-toned.  My sister and I had pink/red shag in our room, other rooms had gold/brown, light/dark avocado, baby blue/navy, and peach/rust.  The pile was so deep that, after we vacuumed, we had to use a special carpet rake to fluff it back up.  Of course, as soon as someone walked on it, you could see big foot prints all across the floor.  It was completely impractical (not to mention unsanitary).  Of course, we thought we were stylin'.  I bet there are now multiple generations who have never even seen a carpet rake.  So sad.

Now, doesn't that make the Computron look like a work of art?  (Like how I turned the conversation back to the watch to avoid the site police?)

Timemachines
Posted March 17, 2011 - 6:55pm

Well, I think that these watches are a great part of history and even if you like them or not they are here. I think they are very imporant to our hobby . Can you imagin in another 50 years what the book value will be on one of these cridders! They only made them for a few years and the biggest reason they failed the market was the fact you could not read them in the sunlite. The production #'s are dwarft buy the machanical watches and they will alway's bring a premium because of the few that are left.

 I have had several of these watches and if I ran acrossed one today it would most defentantly go right into my collection, Would I wear it? Maybe once in awhile just for a hoot, not for everyday.

 I'm very happy these watches still exsist, and I do understand the rarity and the value in them.

 Thank you Bulova for bringing a great collectable peice to our hobbie.

 Mike........

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