30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
12:29 a.m.
On 30/09/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
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.
It's hardly a 32-bit mutitasking GUI-based RISC machine, though, is it? :-)
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