Re: PET 2001 Fix....WAS: Will pay good money for NON working PET 2001 motherboard.

From: Philip Lord <*random6000_at_mac.com*> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:01:41 +0900 Message-id: <F90D2625-F5D7-4623-9EA1-D7C766658F2C@mac.com> · random6000_at_mac.com

Yes, I was careful to check that.
The Japanese PET has a Yen symbol on the keyboard, and no pound  
symbol. My new build of the character set includes the Yen symbol.
Thanks for the heads up.

Philip

On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote:

> Philip Lord wrote:
>
>> Your idea to take the VIC-1001 ROM and and just chop it up is  
>> simple  and brilliant. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it  
>> myself ;-)
>
> I think the VIC-1001 character set features a yen instead of a pound  
> symbol? From what I read the major difference between the regular  
> PET and VIC-20 character sets is the backslash is replaced by a  
> pound, but I don't know if the Japanese PET 2001 would have a  
> backslash or yen. I suppose it depends on how Japanese customers  
> would react to a computer with dollars but no yens.
>
> Best regards
>
> -- 
> Anders Carlsson
>
>
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