SR-56C? Interesting idea.

[pauln]

(06-11-2022 12:30 AM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  

(06-10-2022 11:21 PM)Peet Wrote:  It might not have cost anything, the TI-57 had pseudo-constant memory via a software trick.

https://www.pcjs.org/machines/ti/ti57/tips/

By using the page with diagnostics, one can see that the calculator doesn't actually go to sleep when using that trick.

https://www.pcjs.org/machines/ti/ti57/rev0/

Incidentally, before writing RCL-57, I didn't realize that the calculator is constantly updating the display even when the calculator is idle. I guess that for anybody into hardware this must be obvious but it was a big surprise for me.