1 Oct
2005
1 Oct
'05
5 a.m.
On 30/09/2005, at 10:29 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 30/09/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at
earthlink.net> wrote:
I just checked my Sharp PC-1211 (which is the same thing) and the
battery is almost dead - the screen is hard to read but it still
works. Given that I've had it for 20 years or so that's not too bad!
I'll pick up a new battery later today (should last another 20 years!).
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
My Tandy Pocket Computer (a PC-8) still has the
same battery in it
that
it did when I bought it used. Granted, I don't hammer away at it
extensively, but I've coded in BASIC programs to factor numbrers to
their primes and various other tasks and fooled with it enough. I am
talking about a machine as thin as a light-duty calculator which
uses a
coin battery. I've owned it personally for more than four years
now and
it STILL has the same battery. And it has retained my BASIC programs
that long.
OK, I'm impressed, I have to admit it.