VC8E Option

[Vincent Slyngstad]

From: Kyle Owen: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 9:04 AM

> 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?

That driver contains the line:
        JMS I (STRTHL+4 /CALL PROGRAM HELP

which calls the code in
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/pdp8/papertapeImages/russ.ucs.indiana.edu/Utils/VC8E/Ascii/help.pa

which is what I think you were looking for.

    Vince