30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
12:12 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:51:44 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 28/09/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
40h use? I flat-out don't believe you. That's /use/ - not standby
time, which is many *months*. We're talking 2 *days* of *continuous*
operation.
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.