Re: LZ: A watch?


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Re: LZ: A watch?



On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:42:03 EDT jwenger@juno.com (Jason C. Wenger)
writes:
>>>Yeah, I've already done it in TI-BASIC, and my version is accurate.  
>
>>>I'm trying to move it to ZShell so I can display the current time as 
>
>>>it runs.  TI-BASIC is too slow to do that.
>>
>>Your version is accurate?  How'd you compensate for battery power?
>
>I have the calc count as fast as it can, and check for keypresses.  
>when a key is pressed, it gets the current counter value, and 
>multiplies it by a number stored in the variable tC (timer 
>Correction), and displays the result.  Whenever you think it might be 
>off, you run the timer for a certain amount of time (say 30 secs.) and 
>then you run a calibration program.  You type in the actual time it 
>ran, and the formula T/(clock ticks) tells you the proper value of tC.
>
>If anyone wants it, I'll post the TI-BASIC version, but, like I said, 
>I'm working on a ZShell version that'll be MUCH better.
>
>Jason "Thursday" Wenger
>jwenger@juno.com
>Illegitimi no carborundum


I think I'll just wait on the ZShell version!  ;-)


Clever programming though. . .


-|/|/esley McGrew
wesleymcgrew@juno.com


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