[TUHS] Baudot/ASCII (was Re: terminal - just for fun)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Thu Aug 7 16:44:43 AEST 2014
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)
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