TERMINAL DEVICE FOR DATA TRANSMISSION WITH DISPLAY FACILITY AND MESSAGE FORMAT CONTROL

摘要

In a terminal device for the transmission of data, a display device is provided to display characters in a store contained in the terminal device. The position and format of displayed messages are adjustable by control of the location of storage of the data by means of a message format control. This latter is adapted to selectively generate a group of stop signals for defining a corresponding group of cells of the store; each one of said groups of cells corresponds to display positions defining a corresponding display format. The cells defined by the stop signals are decoded by decoder means and the characters are entered in them so that these characters are displayed in the positions of the display corresponding to the selected display format. Means are also provided which are operable for causing the characters following a predetermined flag signals to be shifted one step. Other means are provided for displacing the characters following said signal to be shifted to the next row of the display.