IF you're serious and patient about this, we might be able to help.
Thirty years ago we needed to translate TRS-ASCII
code to standard ASCII to post on bulletin boards
for the newsrooms. But it will take some time to find that stuff.
As I recall it amounts to a tedious series of IF
- THEN statements (one for every character) to
filter the TRS characters and output it (print to
a file) to the standard (.txt file) which can be
opened in most any DOS/Windows edit program.
Let me know -- offline if necessary
At 04:41 PM 11/8/2015, you wrote:
HiÂ
I noticed that there are some partial unicode
mappings for the Tandy-specific characters on
the following page:
<http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unicode_Mappings>http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unicode_MappingsÂ
I think it would be quite nice to be able to
transfer files to a PC and have (as close as
possible) the full Tandy character preserved via
conversion to Unicode. Anyone like to second this?
As it happens I have done this sort of work
before when converting legacy APL programming
files into Unicode, so it would be a fairly
straightforward problem for me to solve in this instance.
On a related note having checked the 'print'
library page on the club100 siteÂ
<http://www.club100.org/library/libprt.html>http://www.club100.org/library/libprt.html
I couldn't see any applications that attempted
to allowed the fonts to be printed - was there a
specific printer model Tandy supplied that was
able to print the additional non-ascii characters?
I've had renewed interest in this and other
Tandy Model T topics today as I fixed the broken
keys on my Model 200 (by opening up the
individual key switches and cleaning the internals).
Kind regards, Mark
Russ Oechslin
