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On 2019-07-01 21:46:00 +0000, Holger Granholm -> Ozz Nixon said:

> 
> That's the extra work I had to do. Received a bulletin in UTF code and
> had to translate the UTF codes manually to PC8 (cp437/450).
> 
> I have built-in conversion functions for Asc7/Asc8, Lat1/Asc8, Html/Asc8
> and Mac/Asc8 both ways but when I did the programming UTF wasn't invented
> yet.

Hmmm, those sound interesting!

> [snipped]
> It's not only you Americans that can design in IBM old school.
> I had to learn programming because my first machine was a Sinclair ZX81
> with Z-80 cpu. If I wanted to make programs snappier and larger than 16
> kb RAM allowed I had learn assembly coding because that Basic of that
> machine was very good but limited.
> 
> After updating to a CP/M machine I started programming in TurboPascal and
> C

I started out on old Tandy Model II, then I, III, 4, 4p, 1000, CP/M 
Molecular (running MP/M for 4 terminals), then IBM and Clones in the XT 
era. The Model I, is when I wrote my first BBS... Model II ran Xenix, 
so, it was kinda like a BBS in itself - haha.

> [Snipped]
> ON> I may even look at Serial support - or a serial -> TCP gateway
> ON> native to the OS/2 build.
> 
> I'm investigating the VMODEM so that I can get this machine on WiFi.

Good luck with that!! If I could at least get WiFi or Eth working, OS/2 
would be more interesting.

Ozz

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