I stood on the corner of 86th and Broadway last Saturday morning. It was raining, so I was wet. I was thinking not so much of the water running off the end of my nose as of what Sinclair could do with their latest product, the Black Watch.

The Black Watch is a $50 digital wristwatch that you can buy for $29.95 if you're willing to build it yourself. There was a full page ad for it in the December 1975 issue of Popular Mechanics. In the ad the watch looks like instant Stanley Kubrick, I mean, I doubt if you'll be able to get into 2001 without one.