[TUHS] terminal - just for fun

[Mary Ann Horton]

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 <ron at ronnatalie.com>:

>
> On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:47 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> 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.
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