HP 9100A/B: Effects of AC power interruption?

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(12-21-2024 02:45 AM)John Garza (3665) Wrote:  Still, my gut tells me this is iffy as some parts may achieve 'wake-up-voltage' a split second before others, which could do god knows what to a running program.

I wonder if the same can happen on the Continuous Memory models. The data is pushed into memory as a serial bit stream, so cutting the power at the right time might interrupt it. This might result in errors the next time it is used as the data might not be BCD but have some HEX values instead. The [Clear] buttons would fix it though.