please help i.d. this old scubapro computer

[thoughtbuilds]

I just purchased this and have no idea how to operate it. I am very new to diving in fact I am just purchasing equipment and preparing. Any help would be appreciated 

[regulator68bj]

Welcome thoughtbuilds, Your computer is from the 1990's not really vintage however have located some information via a "Scubapro" catalogue of the period if you care to PM me will forward by return it might be a thought but your nearest "Scubapro" agent might help more.


john

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[thoughtbuilds]

I sent you a p.m. thank you so so much for the assistance. I asked a scubapro rep on another board but haven't received an answer possibly due to the holiday weekend. I find it very interesting that so few people know what it is. I think it's safe to say it's unusable as functioning gear

[cnotthoff]

The last time I saw that model digital dive timer/ pressure & depth gauge (not a computer), it looked just like that with all displays blank. Unfortunately, that was during a friend's deco dive at Truk Lagoon. His Edge still worked.

If it turns on, and you decide to dive it, make sure you have back ups. If it doesn't turn on, it will be a nice wall hanger.

Good Dives,

Charlie

[thoughtbuilds]

Do you recall how it functions? I can't find instructions anywhere.

[thoughtbuilds]

Thanks to everyone for the help. It's been identified as the first digital console made by scubapro. It functions exactly as Charlie described and needs to be pressurized to activate as described in literature sent to me by John. Seems like a neat little piece of kit if only for the novelty of it.

[SeaRat]

This may be the first digital recorder, titled the Scubapro Diving Recorder. Frank Worthwein, VintageFrank on this site, wrote a book titled 50 Jahre Scubapro, Der Atemreglerhersteller for the German audience (he resides in Germany). In it he describes the Scubapro Diving Recorder for the year 1988:

Die eigentliche Sensation kommt dieses Jahr aber aus Japan. Mit dem Scubapro Diving Recorder (SDR) bietet Scubapro ein elektronisches System zur Wiedergabe des Tauchgangprofils an. Das System besteht aus dem Aufzeichnungsgerät, einem Wiedergabegerät und einem Drucker/Plotter von Seico.

Translated by Google:

But the real sensation comes this year from Japan. With the Scubapro Diving Recorder (SDR) Scubapro offers an electronic system for displaying the dive profile . The system consists of the recording apparatus, a reproducing apparatus and a printer/plotter of Seico.

"Seico" may be the Germany spelling of the company we know as Seiko. He has a photo of the entire package with the plotter, an instruction book, some software (it appears) and the recorder, and also two examples of readouts on page 85 of the above book. You might want to contact him via PM here to talk a bit more about it. It was apparently gone by 1990 when Scubapro came out with the DC-11 dive computer.

By the way, with this device as I currently understand it, you would still need a set of decompression tables to be safe. This simply records and plots the dive profile.

John

[thoughtbuilds]

[SeaRat]

While I was researching this electronic console, I found this Proceedings of the Validation of Dive Computers Workshop on the Rubicon Foundation's website. I think all divers who use dive computers in leu of decompression tables should read this over to get an idea of these advanced computers, and their limitations. Follow the link, then click on the link on the bottom of the page to download the proceedings paper. Here's the description:

The publication of the Proceedings of the Validation of Dive Computer Workshop is cosponsored by NTNU and the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority. The symposium was convened by the Baromedical and Environmental Physiology Group of NTNU on August 24, 2011, at the 37th Annual Meeting of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society in Gdansk, Poland.

John