Yeah; how could we have missed that /LPS signal all this time...

Thanks, Kurt!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Adolph 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 1:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [M100] Low power check


  Wow.  Very nice.  Learn something new every day.

  On Thursday, June 28, 2018, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote:

    Will,



    Found it in the Robert Covington's M100 ports/registers file. Port D0 (208) 
is where the low power signal is. The file indicates this is the same for both 
the 100 and 200.



    PRINT INP(208)



    That command should give you the status of the power. Bit 7 is the 
indicator so the value will change by 128.



    Kurt





    On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Kurt McCullum wrote:

      It's actually a INP(216) command not a PEEK(216). I didn't realize that 
when I first posted. But the memory locations on the 200 would be different 
than the NEC.



      So for the NEC, in BASIC the following command would show the value:

      PRINT INP(216)



      Kurt





      On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, at 9:53 AM, William Winter wrote:

        FYI... I just tried the PEEK (216) on my Model 100 and it returned 85 
with both the battery light on and off. 



        -Will



        On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:42 PM Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> 
wrote:



          That's what I was afraid of. However, I did find something that is 
worth a try when I get home tonight. In the NEC 8201 technical manual (yes I 
read these things) on page 256, it looks like bit 7 of memory location D8 (216) 
is set when there is a low power signal.  If that is correct, a PEAK(216) which 
returns a value greater than 127 should indicate a low power state. But I'll 
have to test this later since I am not in front of the machine.



          Kurt





          On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Stephen Adolph wrote:

            no, I don't think so.  there is no A/D function or alarm point that 
is readable.  would have been a good idea.



            On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Kurt McCullum 
<[email protected]> wrote:



              Is there a PEEK I can do in BASIC to see if the low power light 
is on. I would assume that the 100/200/NEC all have different locations in 
memory but is this possible?





              Kurt








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