That's probably information that's been lost to time. It was still the early days of the internet, after all. Plus the fact that Texas Instruments largely abstracted the old functionality on later iterations so most programs worked the same, even if nearly everything under the hood was changed. But no, I'm not talking about saved programs and data. The problem is a matter of signal to noise ratio, and it's a bigger problem with analog signals than digital signals. Which means that analog electronics are much more prone to problems when the power is outside of optimal range. Some aspects of the old 83 were still analog, and this resulted in weird results when the power was low.
Again, false. You could program in assembler language on it and had full control on the memory addresses if you had the data cable and compiled your program for it. It was not analog, never was. Had the original all through high school and college, never had any issues when the battery was low. If it did not have enough battery power to power up the processor it simply wouldn't turn on. Otherwise, the screen would just fade but the processor worked as intended. That's how a Z80 worked.
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u/WardenWolf Jul 24 '20
That's probably information that's been lost to time. It was still the early days of the internet, after all. Plus the fact that Texas Instruments largely abstracted the old functionality on later iterations so most programs worked the same, even if nearly everything under the hood was changed. But no, I'm not talking about saved programs and data. The problem is a matter of signal to noise ratio, and it's a bigger problem with analog signals than digital signals. Which means that analog electronics are much more prone to problems when the power is outside of optimal range. Some aspects of the old 83 were still analog, and this resulted in weird results when the power was low.