Re: Apple 2c 80/40 switch

[dcross1@nospam.home.com (David Cross)]

In article <3630f053.956924@news.bright.net>, j_2001_m@dejanews.com says...
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>My apple 2c has a switch marked "80/40" on the top. What does it do?

For whatever programs that read the soft switch that this controlled, it would 
allow a program to diagnose whether you wanted to force a program into 40 
column mode vs. 80 column mode.

In practice, very few programs actually read the state of the soft switch and 
when I had an Apple //c I never bothered with toggling it to 40 column mode - 
left it in the default (up) position and was done with it.

Here's an anecdotal note for you guys who want to use Apples that support 80 
columns with a TV set - I've found that the 12" RCA ColorTrak models 
(Manufactured after about 1986) do quite a nice job of displaying 80 column 
text readably.