Paper tape and 8th bit?

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Sat Aug 26 17:48:38 CDT 2006


Chuck Guzis wrote:

> 
> If you look at the preceding character, is there any correlation to the 8th
> bit of the next one?  The 8th bit just might be garbage left over and not
> masked out.

It could be binary.The driver is loaded in the top of memory, and
seems to patch over a TTY driver. I don't have manual handy
but it does have a bootstrap loader @ 80H I think, the first
256 bytes to load in a hex loader.




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