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June 1997, Week 5

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On Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:48:07 -0500, Dave Mohler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
|I became aware of an HP 150 escape sequence that, to my knowledge has
|remained undocumented.  You may be familiar with "<esc>&a<row>r<col>C"
|to position the cursor.  Try "<esc>&a?", at least on the older models.

Ah, yes...  "My mind is going..."  :))  This is one of the better questions
in the collection titled "Bradmark presents Eugene Volokh's HP Trivia".
My personal favorite, however, is:

Q: What colors did the original HP3000 come in?
A: Sun Gold, Red, Marine Blue & (my fav' ;) Woodgrain  [Ah, the 70s.... :]

|My appologies for resurrecting this thread after so long.  I ran across
|this message trying to clean out my piled-up mailbox.

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who has a perpetual backlog of
email (and other textual items) up with which I vainly try to keep.  ;)
--
Jeff Woods
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"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
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