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Subject: Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC
filetransfer...
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:28:26 +0000
From: Mark Wickens <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hi Ron
That looks great - I have a PSI PP404 printer (industrial wide format
dot-matrix semi-line printer) that I'll be sure to plug the Model 102 in
at some point just to check the 24-pin Epson emulation :D
In the meantime I've been busy tonight. Here is the fruits of my labour:
http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/static/files/tandy/Tandy%20Model%20T%20Code%20to%20Unicode%20Generated%20V1.7.html
The table is laid out with the Model 100 character set Unicode
equivalents listed first, with any differences in the 102/200 listed in
the 2nd set of columns. I've done it this way to keep the two bitmapped
graphics together so it is easy to play spot the difference. Some
differences are quite subtle!
Without any prior knowledge I believe it might be the case that the
character set was changed between the Model 100 and Model 102 to support
more Scandinavian languages. The Model 102 character that I haven't been
able to make a good guess at is character 204 - it doesn't really look
like a lower case or upper case i based on the serifs of other letters
in the character set. Anyone got any ideas what letter it might be
representing?
When I get a chance later in the week I will add the keyboard shortcuts
for each of the 255 characters. The table is in HTML format with enough
meta-data to allow it to be parsed as well-formed XML as the basis of
any programmed conversion process.
Kind regards, Mark
On 11/11/15 09:56, Ron Wiesen wrote:
Hello Mark:
Attached are files M100_pg18.bmp and M102_200_pg19.bmp. These are
pages 18 and 19 of the NATIVE user manual. Respectively they show all
glyphs of the Model 100 laptop and the Model 102/Model 200 laptop.
I placed the entire NATIVE product into the public domain in January
2015. All of the NATIVE files, including the complete NATIVE user
manual (Native.pdf), are available at the Club 100 website within the
Personal Libraries [http://www.club100.org/memfiles/]. This is the
Club100 Member Upload Library, where all of the NATIVE files are found
under the /Ron Wiesen/NATIVE subdirectory.
Keeper of the Primordial Bit (born of the Big Bit Bang), -= Ron Wiesen =-
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*From:*M100 [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Mark Wickens
*Sent:* Sunday, November 08, 2015 22:41
*To:* M 100
*Subject:* [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC
filetransfer...
Hi
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
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 site 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
