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A very photogenic couple
08-25-2018, 04:41 PM
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(08-22-2018 01:57 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  It's got standard 1st-gen Casio BASIC, with one superficial quirk: custom prompt messages are separated into two steps. So "TRIALS"?->T on most other models would be "TRIALS":?->T here.

I bought one of these when I was at school in the early '80s and this string display was the most annoying feature by far. On the 501P/601P models the print command would display and pause, requiring the user to press EXE (or whatever) to continue. But if the print command was followed by a semi-colon, the calc would continue without waiting for the user acknowledgment. This was very handy for displaying progress through a loop while still being able to display results to the user at the end so they could be written down.

The 4000P lost the semi-colon capability which was very annoying to me at the time. (Now I realise Casio were just preparing me for a lifetime of disappointment as tech companies take away features for no good reason!) ;-)
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A very photogenic couple - Dave Britten - 08-22-2018, 01:57 PM
RE: A very photogenic couple - BruceH - 08-25-2018 04:41 PM
RE: A very photogenic couple - rickh57 - 02-27-2021, 04:06 PM
RE: A very photogenic couple - Hollerith - 02-28-2021, 04:03 PM



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