Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Richard A. Cini wrote:

> My Altair is configured for 8N1 as is the terminal (a Windows PC). For some
> reason when I LIST a BASIC program I see >127 on some characters (mostly
> punctuation). Typing in produces the right screen characters.
>
> Maybe there's something else wrong?
>

Maybe BASIC only expected to send 7 bit characters so has garbage in bit 7...




>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Peter C. Wallace
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:38 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?
>
>
>> What the heck is sending ASCII characters > 127 to your terminal and
>> why?
>>
>
> Sending 7 bits + parity and receiver expecting 8 bit characters?
>
> Peter Wallace
>

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics