From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:40:44 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun In-Reply-To: <03371903-E2C1-4D31-9C83-28612E6BD16D@ronnatalie.com> References: <201408060256.s762u7Ni007007@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> <201408060645.s766jV9p004639@freefriends.org> <03371903-E2C1-4D31-9C83-28612E6BD16D@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <20140806144044.122624z5sscy9h3w@webmail.mhorton.net> On the model 33 (ASCII) teletype, control G, the BEL character, rang a metal bell inside the box, and it went "ding". I had a friend who came across an older, Baudot teletype (I think he said it was a model 27.) It also had a BEL character. He said instead of going "ding", it went "splat", and a printed character appeared on the paper in the shape of a bell! Quoting Ronald Natalie : > > On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:47 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, arnold at skeeve.com wrote: >> >>> So the model-33 wasn't ASCII? >> >> Nope; it was 5-bit Baudot (technically ITA2). Upper case only, and there >> were codes to shift between letters and figures. Grep thee the net for >> "ASR33". > > Nonsense. The Model 33 as ASCII but Upper Case only. It > definitely was not Baudot. > The Baudot version of the same thing was a model 28. > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >