On a Tiny Canvas

Poking back through a “retro image processor” on my iPad, I discovered its “ASCII-plus art” section included the TRS-80 Model 100’s character set. With one of those early portable computers having long been in my family (if not ready to my hands right now), I was a bit pleased to find its characters among those of PCs and PETs. In those less standardized days when just seven bits of an 8-bit computer’s address space were defined as ASCII characters, the Model 100’s upper range included not just accented letters and block graphics but tiny icons such as phones, planes, alien landers, and race cars.
( (Slightly) beyond ASCII art )