Date   : Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:52:29 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Acorn newline sequence

On 09/06/2013 16:47, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 04:16:44PM +0100, J.G.Harston wrote:

>> With my manual typewriter when you push the newline lever across from 
>> the right to the left it moves the carriage across, and then at the 
>> maximum extent it engages the cogs to move the drum up one line. So, 
>> <cr><lf> (<13><10>).
> 
> Huh; that's different the one I used as a kid.  I got used to gentle taps
> of the handle to do a line feed.

Different to mine too.  Every manual typewriter I've ever used does the
linefeed before moving the carriage back.

And lots of older Apple stuff does LF-CR rather than CR-LF.  Acorn was
not unique.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York