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.
>>>
>>>
>>
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