Hello again Mark:
> I have a PSI PP404 printer Your PP404 printer was manufactured after 1993, which is why it is not listed in Table 4 (page 7) of the NATIVE manual. Nevertheless, I'm sure any of the NATIVE program files that are for 24-pin Epson emulation (e.g., N1EQA_.CO) will "enlighten" your printer. After running any of those NATIVE program files it's very likely that the printing speed of your PP404 printer will be 3 times faster than it was before NATIVE "enlightened" it. > Here is the fruits of my labour The table you've made is a handy reference that some folks will appreciate. The table has an error that I believe is the result of an intended "Copy_Paste_then_Edit" operation where the Edit didn't happen: see the CHR$(254) description which should read "BLACK LOWER RIGHT TRIANGLE" rather than "BLACK UPPER RIGHT TRIANGLE". > later in the week I will add the keyboard shortcuts Accessory file KEYMAP.DO, viewed under the TEXT application of your Model T laptop, will identify all of the shortcuts. It's a keyboard template that identifies the screen glyphs and related keyboard shortcuts for any (USA and Euro) Model T laptop model: Kyocera/Kyotronic KC-85, M100, M102, M200, NEC PC-8201a, NEC PC-8300, Olivetti M10, etc. Accessory file PRTEST.DO has been widely used in the IT departments of various industries. This was unexpected by me when I offered NATIVE in 1993. The first request came from AT&T - rather than any PDD diskette media and NATIVE .CO program files, the request was for a corporate license to legally use PRTEST.DO only. Apparently, some Model T laptop owner who had purchased NATIVE used accessory file PRTEST.DO at his/her workplace and the corporation wanted to avoid any copyright infringement issues about its usage. Shortly after I provided the license to AT&T for a small fee, as well as a copy of file PRTEST.DO, several other corporations contacted me with requests for its usage. PRTEST.DO served as a direct, fast, and conclusive means to settle inter-department arguments regarding visible faults/inconsistencies related to sundry fonts that were in use by the corporation internally as well as externally in their corporate websites. The corporate usage of PRTEST.DO came as a complete surprise to me, but after hearing about its usage I could understand the demand for it. File PRTEST.DO is attached. Cheers, Keeper of the Primordial Bit (mother of all bits), -= Ron Wiesen =- _____ From: M100 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 23:29 To: M 100 Subject: [M100] Fwd: Re: Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC filetransfer... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [M100] Conversion of Tandy Model T characters after PC filetransfer... Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:28:26 +0000 From: Mark Wickens <mailto:[email protected]> <[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%2 0to%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/> 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 =- _____ From: M100 [mailto: <mailto:[email protected]> [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
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