Commodore VIC-20 User Manual page 26

The VIC has 506 places on the screen for characters, letters,
symbols, and so forth. You might say that The VIC can juggle
506 characters at the same time. Amazing 1
VPC TIP
If the VIC has 22 columns across the screen, then any message whose
length is an even divisor of 22 (messages 2 characters. 11 and 22
characters in length) causes the VIC to PRINT in nice neat columns.
Messages of other lengths spill over to the next line. Test this assump
tion for yourself.
Stop the VIC's PRINTing of the neat columns of hearts by
pressing the I jjmj key. Then enter these two lines into the VIC.
<
(
c
(
c
<
<
<
<
c
c
c
You can change the way information is printed on the screen
by putting spaces between the quotation marks. Another way is
to use periods (or dots} instead of spaces. Try typing your name
and 3 periods in the program at the beginning of this chapter.
c
(
1
1(5
c
c
c
c
c
c
c