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From: rob@ireta.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Numbers on screen and tokens
Keywords: token
Message-ID: <3063V1w163w@ireta.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 20 Jan 91 18:52:25 GMT
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Organization: Still Animation Logo Design, Burnaby BC
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akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) writes:

>   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.

It's a flag annunciator.  Set flags 1-5 to light them all up, clear flags
1-5 to shut them off.  Kinda neat, but I couldn't findany documentation on
them in the manuals... (no, really? :)
 
> Second of all, in the Nickel's 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.

No idea, sorry!  Anyone else?  

Rob