i. To compose the video page shown in Fig. 5.1,
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1. Move the screen cursor down one single-height space by pressing the
“
DOWN ARROW” key.
2. Set a “4x4” CHARACTER SIZE
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for the first line of FIXED TEXT by
a. First pressing the
Width key and then 4.
b. Then pressing the
Hght (HEIGHT) key and then 4.
3. Set a color of
red on white for the first line of FIXED TEXT
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:
a. Press the
Shift key and hold it down.
b. Press the key labelled
Red.
c. Press the
Back Grnd (BACKGROUND) key.
d. Press the key labelled
Wht (WHITE).
e. Release the
Shift key.
You may wish at this time to experiment with other foreground/back-
ground color combinations. Remember, the sequence is
[SHIFT]
CHARACTER COLOR KEY
BACKGROUND KEY
BACKGROUND COLOR KEY
[UNSHIFT]
4. Now you’re ready to enter the actual text of the line. Type the word
“
WARNING!” Press and hold down the Shift key (or press Caps Lock) to
produce upper-case letters and the exclamation point (!). If you make a
typing error, you can always use the
Back Space or “LEFT ARROW” key
and rewrite over any existing text—as long as you’re in TEXT EDITOR
MODE.
5. Using the “
LEFT ARROW” key, move the cursor back to the letter “W.”
Press the
Insrt (INSERT) key once. This inserts one white-background
space to the left of the word “WARNING!,” at the position of the cursor.
6. Now reset the color of this inserted space to
white on black:
[SHIFT], WHITE, BACKGROUND, BLACK [UNSHIFT]
7. Press the Insrt key several more times—thereby inserting black-back-
ground
spaces—until the word is horizontally centered on the screen, as
in Fig. 5.1. If you insert too many spaces, you can delete the space occu-
pied by the cursor by pushing the
Dlete (DELETE) key.
8. The cursor should still be at the left edge of the screen. Move it down
three single-height spaces, via the “
DOWN ARROW” key. Note that, for
purposes of vertical formatting, you may
insert a line of spaces of appro-
priate size and color by moving the cursor to the extreme left edge of the
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CRT VIDEO SETUP
“O
NTHE
A
IR
” (B-S
IZED
)
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The procedure given here assumes the use of a Model 10BVS95 or 10BVS98 Video Signal
Card. The procedure is slightly differently when the older 10BVS90 is present.
2
ALL TEXT AND DATA CHARACTERS ON A GIVEN LINE OF THE DISPLAY MUST BE OF THE
SAME SIZE (HEIGHT x WIDTH). All the character sizes shown in Fig. 2.C.4 of the System 10
Guidebook are possible with the exception (for a Model 10BVS95) of “2 x 1,” “3 x 1,” and
“4 x 1.”
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For monochrome equivalents to color settings, see Section 2.C.5(d) of the System 10 Guide-
book.
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