(Neither was
fantastically informative, unfortunately... I was hoping for
info about machine language or a complete table of characters and key codes.
There was a table in both manuals, but I'm not sure if I would trust it.
Any particular reason why you don't trust it? I've not found any errors
in that table...
Well, maybe "don't trust" is the wrong phrase. I was hoping for
information
about key combinations that don't map to ASCII characters (i.e., Ctrl+Shift
combinations, function keys), or extra graphics characters (yes, there are
visible glyphs in the control-character slots I think, but they are so
miscellaneous as to make the IBM character set look well-organized).
Basically, I suppose I was hoping for more details.
The tech manual is pretty good on the hardware side
(full schematics,
theory of operation, etc), but a bit lacking on the software side. It
gives a number of useful entry points, but of course there are many more
that _aren't_ there...
Well, yes, exactly. See above.
-- Derek