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Bob's Time Computer Story

Innovations

From watches to analyzers to radios, Pulsar was a leader in technology.

 

Bob is busy at work at his test bench gathering electrical data on the soon to be designed Pulsar Watch Analyzer. A need existed to develop an analyzer for a jeweler to adjust watches to the correct time and to replace and test batteries.
Show above is the production model of the Pulsar Watch Analyzer. The analyzers were manufactured in Lancaster, PA and shipped to jewelry stores across the country.
Above is a photo of a US Patent for the Pulsar Watch Analyzer. The patent was issued in Robert Reese's name.
In the photo above, a man is exercisingon a stationary bike in a Sports Medicine facility. Please not that he is wearing a prototype model of the new Plulsar Pulse Rate Monitor Watch.
THE BEAT GOES ON. A new Palsar brand LED time piece includes a sensor device (a photophlismagraph) said to measure the pulse rate of the wearer by detecting changes to capillary size as blood is pumped by the heart. Bob worked closely with engineers at Harvard University developing prototype sendor devices for the potential wrist piece.
The above photo is a close up shot of a person with their finger on the pulse sensor. As you can see, the persons pulse rate shows 72 beats per minute. A patent for the Pulse Rate Monitor was filed but a patent was not issued. It seems that a gentleman named Thomas Orr of Southampton, England was awarded a patent in 1974 called: HEART BEAT RATE MONITOR.
The photo above shows a typical Pulse/Heart Rate Graph.
The Pulsar Time Monitor, boroadcasting in five different frequencies, is a medium wave radio receiver used in the Laboratory by technicians and others, to synchronize exact time signals from wwv, based in Fort Collins, Colorado. The rliability of the time signal is within a tenth of a second. If you needed to set your Pulsar watch to the correct time, this was the instrument you could trust. The Monitor was build by an outside vendor to Pulsar's specifications.
The above image is the cover letter of a technical proposal written by a Pulsar Electical Engineer. The proposal describes in detail how Pulsar might design and produce wrist worn Digital Pager Watches.
I am writing and debugging code on a Digital Equiptment Corporation PDP-11 minicomputer relative to a new computer controlled station that performs real time testing of Pulsar watch modules. The test takes a few minutes to comlete the test cycle. At the completion of the tests, the computer prints out a summary of the test results.