[cctalk] Re: Illiac II Library Routine

On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 03:38 -0500, Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote: My late colleague Robert Holzman had worked on an Illiac as a student (not sure which one). He told me that to enter hexadecimal numbers you had to put the TTY in the correct mode (numbers instead of figs?) and then use KSNJFL for the digits beyond nine because those had the right binary representation in Baudot code in that mode. IBM used ABCDEF. How did he remember KSNJFL? He had two mnemonics: King Size Numbers Just For Laughs Kind Souls Never Jostle Fat Ladies