12.
CHANGING
THE
CHARACTER
SET BY COUNTRY
The
DIP
switch
is
normally used to set the keyboard layout. Occasionally,
it
is
useful to be able to temporarily change the characters
but
not the keyboard
layout so that, for example, a word processed file written in French can be read
on
the screen with the correct characters. Taking the last option by pressing
the key marked C, will enable the character set for the different countries to
be displayed. The menu shows:
***
COUNTRY
***
Select
number
or
ESC
to
return.
country
:
ASCII
l=ASCII
2=Denmar-k
3=England
4=France
5=Germany
6=Ital
y
7=Norway
B=Spain
9=Sweden
The county whose characters are displayed
is
changed by pressing the key cor-
responding to the country in the table
on
the right
of
the screen. The currently
chosen country
is
displayed on the fourth row on the left hand half
of
the screen.
International Character Sets
S
United
permam
Penmar.
France England Sweden Italy Spain
Norway
Dec. Code
States
35
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# £ #
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#
36
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3.9 Communications
The pX-8 can be used
to
communicate with other computers, either directly
or
using telephone lines. This means that program
and
data
files can be sent
from one computer
to
another directly along a simple pair
of
wires - the cables
and telephone lines connecting the computers are really no more than this. Con-
necting a printer to a computer
is
a very simple form
of
communication, as
is
the addition
of
disk drives, so it
is
not really much more complicated to con-
nect another computer. The length
of
the pair
of
wires between the computers
is
irrelevant so long as the correct equipment
is
used.
For
instance,
if
you want
to
connect your PX-8
at
home
to
your QX-lO desktop microcomputer at the
office, all you would need
is
an
acoustic coupler
at
each end into which to plug
the telephone handset and the appropriate sending and receiving software to
run
on each computer.
It
wouldn't matter
if
one computer was in New York
and the other in London - the system would still work.
The examples given here relate mainly to communication with the EPSON QX-lO
desktop microcomputer, the EPSON acoustic coupler
and
EPSON printers,
although any other computers
and
printers may be used given the appropriate
cables and utility software.
HARDWARE
When the PX-8
is
required to
'talk'
to other hardware, the following cables
are necessary to connect via the RS232C
I/O
ports:
Cable Type
PX-8
to
PX-8 # 726
QX-lO #725
Acoustic
Coupler
# 724
There are various configurations possible
of
which the following are a few:
~.
#726
..
1 PX-8
Acoustic
Coupler
~.
#725.1
QX-IO
3-75
Acoustic
Coupler
#724
PX-8
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