Re: jippie, my apple2+ is still working :-))

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

That may be true but to display it on the screen you need a different
command, like
for i = 1 to 3000: print i: next

Anyway a lot of the time wasted there is in scrolling, you can still display
it but much faster if you put:
for i = 1 to 3000: print i;: next

Simon.

>    A lot has to do with whether or not you display the countdown on the
screen
> or not. A countdown in memory only may take 3-4 seconds, but to display
that
> may take 45.  Not sure of the exact counts, but try it....
>
> Raymond
>