Comment by california-og
10 months ago
I did consider that, but the 1980 IBM Displaywriter uses a filled downwards triangle, not a house character, to indicate the center line [0].
But you're right that the Displaywriter inspited 1984 DisplayWrite DOS program [1] did use the house character for the same purpose. (Although, CP437 also included a filled downwards triangle character at 0x1F.)
[0]: https://youtu.be/YnU_woucebE?t=169
[1]: https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/ibm_displaywrite.p...
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