From: TURTLE              
To: JONBOY              
Subject: Hex & You      
Date & Time: 03/06/91 21:44:48
Message Number 13554

>we used hex tho... I HATE signed decimal.
 
We TRS-80 hackers used hex, too, except for when the machine was first
turned on. A familiar sight to TRS-80 hackers is the old familiar
 
Memory Size? _
 
that appeared on power-up; it's BASIC asking how much high memory to
protect for interrupt routines and the like. If you were using
KBFIX (which I was, being one of the lucky ones who got one of the
original bouncy keyboards before Radio Shack fixed the problem) you'd
enter 32712 to protect 55 bytes of high memory for the debounce
routine.
 
Tres interessant, no?