Buggy behavior with HP-80 y^x?

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(12-31-2023 12:44 PM)van2z Wrote:  The display turns back on *during* the calculation. You end up seeing an animation of it "thinking" with various random numbers quickly flashing before it gets the answer.

Can anyone who has an HP-80 please verify for me what you see?

Thank you,
Veniamin

HP coders did this so that on long calculations or while a program is running, the user gets feedback showing that the calculator is busy. The code has various points where the display is cycled on and off.

If you like, you can check your emulators against mine at http://www.teenix.org. They are pretty close to the real items.

cheers

Tony