Re: A89: on calc time

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Subject: Re: A89: on calc time
From: Rob Smith <kormoc@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:35:41 -0400
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ok, i thought it was quartz based, but i was wrong, like usual. And i am on
the hardware list :)
thanks
	-Rob Smith

At 09:38 AM 7/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>i have a question, the apd timer times while the calc is on or off, right?
>
>Wrong -- the APD (Auto Power Down, there's a hyphen in there somewhere) only
>detects how long the calculator has been running.  It's an interrupt, and
>like all interrupts, is disabled when the calc is off.
>
>>so if we make a program that detects how long the calc has been off,
>>couldn't you make a time program that works all the time.i have no idea how
>>the hardware's setup so that's why i'm sending it to the hardware list.
>
>Nope, it just can't be done on TI's unless they give us a crystal-clock
>thingy (we had this discussion months ago =).  And FYI, the hardware
>discussion won't receive that unless you're subscribed to it. . .
>
>    -Scott
>
>
>
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