50g Random Turn ON

[TravisE]

I've read that passage in Insights as well, but as DavidM points out, I was under the impression that this brief processor wake-up would be pretty much invisible to the user. I may be wrong, but I figure the display wouldn't even get turned on, and I wouldn't expect STARTOFF to be executed. If this were the case, then my HP 50g's with a STARTOFF routine that calls a backup program would have it executed at least every 3-ish days when not in use. But instead, the frequency of the apparent “phantom” STARTOFF calls I saw on one of my units is much more irregular.