On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Ronald Natalie wrote:

> The other fun character set was the old UNIVAC Fielddata.  There were no
> non printing characters and in fact not even a null value (the 0 value
> was called master space and printed as @).

What was the character set used by CDC?  60-bit words, of 10 6-bit "characters",
as I recall...  I thought it was Fielddata, but you're saying that that's
Univac's.


<I used SCOPE and NOS/BE in the mid-70s, much has been lost....>

I seem to recall both 6 bit and a larger field that handled upper/lower case; I have no recollection of the names of the encoding. I do distinctly remember that for the six bit set, 0 was used for both ':' and end-of-string; trailing colons on a line would disappear.

-- Charles
 

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