Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?

[Allison]

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>Subject: RE: Anyone got a plain ASCII Windows font?
>   From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net>
>   Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:55:15 -0400
>     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>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?

I always used 7bit IO for terminals in that era.  The base ASCII charset was 
0-127 and bit 7 was often used by many programs to signal a format effector
or binary data.  Some software actually translated the chars with bit 7 set
a set of control characters and reverse screen characters.  The driver I used
for my VDM-1 did that (reverse or cursor required bit 7 to be set).

As a consequence all of my terminal drivers then and now for the 8bit world
(Altair basic and CP/M etal) mask bit 7 to Zero on recieve.  If I needed a 
8bit terminal IO I'd then use IObyte to select a different driver that 
didn't mask.


Allison