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Article #621321Re: Old word processors
From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:28
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:28
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On Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 1:27:06 PM UTC-4, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > I do recall a story about overprinting on a mainframe printer -- > it might have been here even -- where the paper disintegrated. Didn't take too many strikes to disintegrate the paper and cause trouble for the compute operator. Mgmt didn't like that at all, which is why many sites did not like overprinting. In my simple mainframe print program, I used overstrikes to put an underscore in the text. That worked well on the laser printer. For boldface, a special code (IIRC `b) put the printer in boldface. On the PC, there were codes on the dot matrix printer that caused it to add underscore, go to italic mode, or go to boldface mode. These could be automatically added by the word processing software, or sent by BASIC commands.
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