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From: akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Numbers on screen and tokens
Keywords: token
Message-ID: <2798f85e:1745comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 91 02:40:05 GMT
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Ok, a couple of questions.
  First of all, does anyone know what those little numbers on the screen
which appear after tetris, database, or rolodex?  After playing the first
partial machine code version of tetris, I would get a little "1" or "2"
on the top of the screen, aprox. in the middle.  I haven't had this
happen for a while until today.  After using the rolodex posted recently
in c.s.h, I got a little "1" again.  It stayed on, even when I turned the
HP off.  I went to the graph screen, and it went out, but went back on
when went back to the stack display.  Also, I started up tetris,
and of course it dissapeared.  When I interrupted the program, the 1 went
out a split second after I went back to the stack.  All of the above
suggest that it is an annuciator like the RAD or angle indicators.
O.K., I just got it again, to repeat the procedure:  I started up the
phonemanager 1.3 or so which was posted up on c.s.h in the last day.  I
then pressed SRCH, entered * as the field, then  NEXT, PREV. The program
then bombed (BTW, that's another matter) I then pressed the attention
key, and what ho, there it was, along with the HALT alert.  I then
pressed exit, and the HL 
and the HALT dissapeared, leaving the "1".  Anyways, anybody have any
ideas on what it is.  (Or I am missing something and I am going to look
very stupid very soon?!)

Second of all, in the Nickel's Internals I
hmm, this is the second time that happended, must be a bad connection..
anyways, ...Internals List there is mention of tokens.  Exactly what are
they.  I guess that they are used like the Tokens in the token-ring
network for computers, to control instructions , but I'm not sure.
Well, if anybody has any thought on the above, please feel free to
answer.

                ----Falco----