Epson PX-8 - Page 84

REV.-A
2.5.2.4 SW4
This DIP switch assembly is used to select an international character set. The individual
switches are read only when the system is initialized to allow the computer to operate on the se-
lected character set. Table 2-11
shows the available character sets and the corresponding SW4
settings.
Table 2-11 Character Set Selection SW4 Setting
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SW4
Character set
1 2
3
4
5 6
7 8
ASCII 1 1 1 1
0
1
0 0
French
0
1 1 1
0
1
0 0
German 1
0 1 1 0 1 0 0
English
0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
Danish 1 1
0 1 0
1
0 0
Swedish 0 1
0
1
0
1 0 0
Norwegian
0
1 1
0 0
1 0 0
Italy
1
0
0
1 0 1 0 0
Spain
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
HASCI
0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0
Japanese (Japanese)
1
0 0 0 0
1 0 0
Japanese (JIS)
0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0
Japanese (touch 16)
1
0 0
0
0 0 0 0
Note: 1 indicates that the switch is closed and 0 indicates that the switch is open.
•
SW4-5 is used to check whether the RAM disk contents of the RAM unit are correct:
ON: The check is made when power is turned ON in the Restart mode.
OFF:
No check is made.
•
SW4-6 is used to select the charactor generator set for screen dump.
• A system initialization can be accomplished in either of the following two ways:
1. Remove the ROM cartridge cover and press the INITIAL RESET switch (SW5).
2. Press
the RESET switch while holding the SHIFT and GRPH keys down:
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