7 Aug
2014
7 Aug
'14
12:44 p.m.
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Dave Horsfall wrote:
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)
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".