VC8E Option

Charles Anthony charles.unix.pro at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 11:56:08 CDT 2016


On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles Dickman's site shows a VC8E screenshot with text:
>
> http://www.chdickman.com/pdp8/spacewar/
>
> However, unless I'm missing something, I don't actually see what would've
> drawn the characters. A little digging on Bitsavers shows there was a VC8E
> driver.
>
> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/pdp8/papertapeImages/russ.ucs.
> indiana.edu/Utils/VC8E/Ascii/havc8e.pa
>
> Even in this, I don't see any sign of a character lookup table or the like.
> Where would all of this have been created?
>
>
I have a vague memory of a FOCAL overlay for VC8/E that had a character
table in it, but I can't find it on the webs at the moment.

-- Charles


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