Radio Shack TRS-80 PC-3 Owner's Manual page 173

1 WAIT
2 WAIT expression
Abbreviations: W., WA., WAI.
See also: PAUSE, PRINT
Purpose
The WAIT verb is used to control the length of time that displayed information is shown before program execution continues.
Use
In normal execution, the PC-3 Pocket Computer halts execution after a PRINT command until the
(ENTER)
key is pressed. The
WAIT command causes the PC-3 Computer to display for a specified interval, and then proceed automatically (similar to the
PAUSE verb). The expression which follows the WAIT verb determines the length of the interval. The interval may be set to any
value from
0
to 65535. Each increment is about one sixty-fourth of a second. WAIT 0 is too fast to be read reasonably; WAIT
65535 is about 17 minutes. WAIT with no following expression resets the PC-3 Computer to the original condition of waiting
until the
(ENTER)
key is pressed.
Examples
10 WAIT 64
Causes PR INT to wait about 1 second.
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