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Surfing the web from a TRS-80 Model 100
08-07-2015, 03:06 AM
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RE: Surfing the web from a TRS-80 Model 100
(08-06-2015 06:29 PM)Mike Morrow Wrote:  Its BASIC is double precision and it was powerful enough to simulate some plant response data used in drill scenarios.

Unfortunately a bug in the ATN function spoils the double precision for certain arguments. Try, for instance, ATN(1) and ATN(1/4) and see how many correct digits you get in double precision. An altered byte in ROM was the culprit:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...678#171807
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RE: Surfing the web from a TRS-80 Model 100 - Gerson W. Barbosa - 08-07-2015 03:06 AM



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