You know when you sign up for some new account, and they make you fill out security questions, and then you hope that you can remember what the heck the answers were? The one that always gets me is the 1st/2nd/3rd grade teacher. I am absolutely horribly with names, so I have no idea what those poor ladies names were. My anti-recall powers also extend to friends that I had, especially since back when I was a kid we moved around a fair bit. This meant that I had lots of different friends in lots of different places, some more memorable than others.

Where is this all going? Well, when I was in 3rd and 4th grade I was friends with a guy whose name I actually remember, Zach Baker. (Hopefully that is a generic enough name that he doesn’t get offended that I used his whole name, but that’s how I remember him, first and last name. And Zach, if you see this and remember the story, shoot me an email, we’ll catch up!) Zach was a good dude, and at the time he happened to own a Casio watch–with a built in radio! To our fourth grade selves, this was the awesomest thing ever. I happened to have a mildly ineffective metal detector at this same time, that had come with a small single ear head phone. We schemed how we could wear sweatshirts and take turns listening to the radio in class and no one would ever know. Although it seemed like the perfect plan, we never did actually try it.

Now, you may have heard of the Casio FM radio receiver watch, or like me had the pleasure of knowing someone who had one, or perhaps, you were lucky enough to own one. But did you know that Casio actually made a watch with an FM transmitter built in? It was the TM-100, a digital watch of similar style to the Casio calculator watch we all know and love.

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