Sol-10

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Thu Jun 17 17:00:40 1999

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > As an aside, the screen is filled with "90909090...". In skimming the manual
>
> This sounds like a classic display on all Z-80 based machines with
> memory-mapped video.

(niggle) the SOL is 8080 based... B^}
>
> The 39 displays as '9', the 00 displays as something that's
> machine-specific. I seem to remember that most Processor Technology
> machines have a rectangular frame for this character. Is the '0' really a
> zero or could it be this?

Indeed, with the standard character generator ROM it is a square frame
rather than a zero. (but how do you represent that in ASCII?) B^}

-jim
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