From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Baudot/ASCII (was Re: terminal - just for fun)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:44:43 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408071639550.56292@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408061744510.56292@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Dave Horsfall 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".
Eek! For some reason I was thinking of Amateur RTTY (I happen to be an
Amateur "ham" radio operator). Computers are mostly used now, with both
Baudot and ASCII, both FSK and AFSK, but you do see the occasional
die-hard using a boat-anchor.
-- Dave (vk2kfu)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 2:56 [TUHS] terminal - just for fun Doug McIlroy
2014-08-06 6:45 ` arnold
2014-08-06 7:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-06 9:09 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-08-06 20:43 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 21:40 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-07 6:44 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-08-06 13:22 ` John Cowan
2014-08-06 13:44 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-06 15:26 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2014-08-06 16:15 ` Armando Stettner
2014-08-06 20:16 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-08-06 20:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 16:37 ` John Cowan
2014-08-06 17:53 ` scj
2014-08-06 19:44 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-06 20:36 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 20:38 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 16:49 ` Milo Velimirović
2014-08-06 18:26 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-06 18:48 ` Mary Ann Horton
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