[BBC-Micro] Electric Dreams last night.

Jonathan Graham Harston jgh at arcade.demon.co.uk
Mon Oct 12 00:01:18 BST 2009


> Message-ID: <4AD22A41.3060304 at rs432.net>
 
Rick Murray wrote:
> PS: Can anybody explain why viewdata uses '#' to mark Return? And for
> clueless newbs, does pressing '#' do the same thing?
 
'cos there are only 12 keys on a Prestel terminal: 0-9, * and #
0-9  mean follow link 0-9
*    means enter new page number
#    terminates a input line started with *
 
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