Re: MouseText: 'F' & 'G'???

[Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com>]

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"Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in
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>  Do you know what F and G are for?  Is it because of misdesign? 
> Or...were they corrupted in video ROM before they were manufactured 

Together they created a running man character... They may have been used in 
Microsoft's Olympic Decathalon but I'm not sure.  

from (they also show the moustext set)
http://apple2history.org/history/ah08.html  
<<Apple veteran Bruce Tognazzini designed the MouseText characters, which 
included a picture of a running man (perhaps to suggest "running" a 
program). He later sent a letter to Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine to warn 
programmers that the Running Man characters (assigned to "F" and "G") had 
been determined to be unnecessary and would probably be replaced 
eventually.>>

and as was in Mouse tech note #6
http://web.pdx.edu/~heiss/technotes/mous/tn.mous.6.html
<<In early MouseText character sets, the icons mapped to the letters F and 
G combined to form a "running man." In current production, these letters 
are different pictures (an inverse carriage return symbol and a window 
title bar pattern) which form no picture when placed next to each other. 
Programs should not attempt to use the running man MouseText characters.>>