From: pj_nield@hotmail.com   
      
   "Richard Todd"  wrote in message   
   news:x7u0ccljt1.fsf@ichotolot.servalan.com...   
   > Jim K  writes:   
   >   
   >   
   > This doesn't quite match my recollection.  The original,   
   > *non*-Graftrax Epson MX-80 ROMS did have TRS80-like graphics in some   
   > 64-char-long block of character code space (I think 128-191, but could   
   > be wrong.)  The Graftrax ROMS added all sorts of cool escape sequences   
   > and the like for doing graphics at the dot level (as opposed to the   
   > more "chunky" TRS80 graphics), but unfortunately upgrading to Graftrax   
   > *lost* you the TRS80-compatible graphics functionality.  I recall   
   > being somewhat annoyed when I learned this.   
      
   A Panasonic printer we had (actually, still have at my parents) which was   
   MX-80 compatible-ish has the IBM 2x3 block graphics, from chr$(160) to   
   chr$(223), an offest of 32 from the TRS-80 screen character codes.   
      
   I even tried to write (when I was 10) a wedge for the JKL (press J, K and L   
   at the same) screen dump print routine under NewDOS/80 to check each   
   character being printed and add 32 to it if it was in the range 128-191.   
   But it failed horribly because I failed to appreciate the difference between   
   JUMP and CALL...   
      
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