Re: Applesoft BASIC PRINTs 7 bit data?

[Heynony <nospam@noway.com>]

dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr) wrote:

> how text output
> happens in the Apple ][

Interesting, thanks.

It seems (?) that even poking the characters as you've suggested still 
gives me output that can't be read by a receiving device unless that 
device is set to 7 data bits. At a setting of 8 data bits the data from 
the //c appears as garbage on a PC screen which I'm using for testing 
and the device I'm ultimately trying to talk to _can't_ be set to 7 data 
bits so I'm screwed. I've used different //c's, different PCs and 
terminal programs, and different cables, even wired up a cable of my own 
just to be sure.

There's got to be something I'm missing because I was an intensive Apple 
II user for 10+ years from 1978 on, and if the Apple couldn't output 
real 8 bit data I would have run across the problem long before this and 
the literature would be full of references to it. Clearly I'm doing 
something wrong.

Thanks for the background. I'm sure when I mull over what you've said 
and work some more the solution will come.