Re: Weird issue with the Pet 2001-N

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:08:01 +0200
Message-ID: <CAESs-_xiXQ7nSCpcRVO8MVnMTJAuHJHmd+WVs4Vksq4dR=2VSQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 6:04 PM Bill Degnan <billdegnan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> >> > > On Apr 2, 2019, at 9:07 PM, David Laffineuse <davidlaffineuse_at_me.com> wrote:
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>>> >> > > The keyboard seems to be working perfectly fine.
>>> >> > > For instance if I type on the key 'Y', the letter Y is displayed on the screen.  However if I set a variable to Y, e.g. a$="Y" then I print a$, I get a Q on the screen...
>>> >> > > The same occurs with I which produces an A, H which produces _at_, Z which produces R, X which produces P, 8 that produces 0, and 9 that produces 1.  All the other letters are fine.
>>> >> > > What is going on?
>>> >> > > David
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>  Is there any correlation between the PET ASCII and regular ASCII mapping to this symptom?  i.e is Y = Q in one vs. the other?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII

Regular ASCII is similar to the lowercase version of CBM (or PET) character set.

Frank
Received on 2020-05-29 21:16:51

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