You see, this is the kind of material that keeps me on FRIAM. --Doug
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > The interface to the bog standard LCD display can use either 8 or 4 bits > parallel, which only changes the number of outs you need to do to fill the > line buffer, which has an 8 bit byte for each character The 8 bit > character ROM often has fascinating character sets in the high half > depending on where the surplus came from. > > -- rec -- > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sarbajit - >> >> Can you elaborate? I think this one just flew past me... 2 lines of 16 >> characters with only 4 bit indexing (alphabet of 16 characters?)... This >> sounds like (much) more than a digital watch (do those even exist anymore?) >> or even a calculator (only 1 line?). >> >> I feel like you handed us a riddle like the sphynx! >> >> I tried a massive, brooding, indifferent posture to Dougs posts on this >> one, but I could only hold the pose for a few seconds before breaking into >> a belly laugh appropriate only for the Buddha or Santa Claus. >> >> - Steve >> >> Just to update fellow FRIAMers. >> >> The most common standard display device in the world today is the 16x2 >> character LCD display. The vast majority of installations use it in 4 bit >> mode. >> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Douglas Roberts >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> As a courtesy to our old-fashioned (to put it politely) FRIAM list >>> members who are still reading email on their TRS-80 ascii terminals, I will >>> supply a synopses of the material contained in that new-fangled url thingie >>> below: the article discusses a massive, indifferent, brooding silence. >>> >>> You're welcome. >>> >>> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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