IBM 5100 Basic Reference Manual

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Data Pointer Position Before Pointer Position After
Type
Delimiter Displaying
or Printing Displaying or Printing
Character Comma If
at least 18 character The pointer is moved
Variable
positions remain
in the past any remaining
record, data
will be writ- characters of the full
\-
ten beginning at the cur- print zone. If the end
rent position of the
of the record is reached,
pointer.
If less than 18 the record is printed
positions remain,
the or displayed and the
record
is printed or dis- pointer is set to the
played and
the constant start of the next record.
will be written starting
at the beginning of the
next record.
If the end
of the record is encoun-
tered before the char-
acters are written,
the
record is printed or dis-
played and
the remaining
characters will be written
starting
at the beginning
of the next record.
Semicolon The variable
is written
The pointer
is left at the
starting at the current posi- position immediately
tion
of the pointer. If the following the last
end of the first record
is character.
reached before
all data is
written, the record is dis-
played
or printed and the
remaining data
will start
at the beginning of the
next record.
Null (not end
The record
is written and
of statement)
the pointer
is set to the
start of the next record.
Null (end
of statement)
Figure 10 (Part 2 of 31. Positions of DisplllY or Print line-Position Pointer
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IBM 5100 Specifications

General

Release Year	1975
RAM	16 KB - 64 KB
Storage	204 KB tape drive
Display	5-inch CRT
Operating System	APL/BASIC
Processor	IBM PALM (1.9 MHz)