T/S 2000 Tips

There have been a number of tips for the 2000 that have shown up at news letter meetings and in outside newsletters. The authors or sources of the tips are given credit where it is known.

Tip 1: The Missing Legends

If you look at the space above the number keys, you may notice that there are no legends above the 8 and 9. These spaces do have a function however – turn the FLASH on and off as you type. Just get the ‘E’ cursor, then press a CAPS SHIFT ‘9’. You will have inserted a SETFLASH character. Each character printed the following flash. When get tired of this, get the ‘E’ cursor again and press CAPS SHIFT ‘8’, the ENDFLASH character. If you want to set the BRIGHT ON flag, get the ‘E’ cursor, and press unshifted ‘9’. To set BRIGHT OFF, get the ‘E’ cursor again and press the unshifted ‘8’.

Gyuri Grell, CATS

TiP 2: Typing in Colors

There lie those legends, but the color way change color іn the middle to add line such as INK 3, right? Gyuri says no. Get the ‘E’ cursor again, and press the CAPS SHIFT and the key for the color you want for INK. This will insert a CHANGEINK character in the text To change the paper: get the ‘E’ cursor and press the key for the paper color you want POOFI GREEN paper! (BY the way, each change of color or brightness takes two extra bytes. MF)

Gyuri Grell, CATS

Tip 3: Deleting line numbers.

The 2068 has a block DELETE function that can be pretty useful at times. Most of the time., however, it’s a nuisance. If you try to DELETE the line number, a DELETE token is inserted instead. Normally, holding the key down will allow you to DELETE the DELETE as well as the number (or colon) in front of it. If the line is too long: however, the update of the line will take so long that the 2068 forgets that it’s supposed to delete the line number and it inserts another DELETE! You can get around this by moving the cursor in front of the line number and adding a keyword then moving the cursor around behind the line number again, and DELETING the number. The computer now thinks that the number isn’t a line number, and DELETEs it easily.

Ned Beeler, CATS

TiP 4: Double SCROLL

It you are listing and the word Scroll? appears, pressing CAPS SHIFT ‘3’ or ‘4’ lets two screens of data move by before it stops. This can it be useful when scanning a listing.

David Hoshor, ATSU, Ohio