30 Jul
2001
30 Jul
'01
3:26 p.m.
Hello, all:
Well, I'm bored again and am looking at the Altair emulator code.
There's room for enhancement in the line printer support code to support
control characters of certain printers.
So, here's the question. If I were a purchaser of an Altair in 1977,
which printer would I have purchased? What control code would it have
interpreted? Were the early printers sophisticated enough to recognize
"bold", "underline" or "italic"?
Maybe instead of sending the printer output to a text file, I can
create an HTML file on the fly that supports the formatting codes with tags.
Rich