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Re: Apple iie with switch under case?

Subject: Re: Apple iie with switch under case?
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:49:19 +0100
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On 12/22/2010 08:03 AM, Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Linards Ticmanis wrote:
> 
>> On the German //e the cursor is simply a blinking checkerboard.
> 
>     On my US-keyboard IIc, the checkerboard cursor is activated when you 
> press ESC in BASIC so that you move your cursor anywhere on the screen 
> without disturbing your programming.  It allows you to correct your 
> BASIC programming by selecting and unselecting ESC at the right times.

Strange ... mine starts up with the blinking checkerboard cursor, it
only goes away (to be replaced by a non-blinking white square) if you
switch to 80 columns via PR#3. Or do you boot directly into 80-column mode?

On my IIe, in normal 40-column mode ESC makes no difference as far as
the look of the cursor is concerned. While using the 80-column firmware,
ESC turns the cursor into an inverted "+" (plus) sign, not a
checkerboard. Or is that inverted "+" what you mean? But anyways there
is no "ï¿½" character (continental paragraph sign) in sight.

-- 
Linards Ticmanis

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