17 Feb
2025
17 Feb
'25
4:45 a.m.
On 16/02/2025 21:21, David Wade via cctalk wrote:
On 16/02/2025 20:51, paul.kimpel--- via cctalk wrote:
I was assuming it was a reference particular machines that had limited
ASCII. Square brackets were missing from a lot of keyboards, but not the
IBM PC, which turned up with "everything" and function keys too. Before
then I felt I was lucky when I had lower case. And don't start on ASCII
hard copy terminals.
I don't understand -- ASCII had only two
versions, 1963 and 1967, and
both had square brackets. The IBM PC used ASCII, but had nothing to
do with its standardization.
I can't find the context for this, but it was
early EBCDIC devices
which lacked square brackets, and there was a big debate in the
academic world where to put them in the code page...
https://x3270.miraheze.org/wiki/Why_are_the_square_bracket_characters_displ…
... and here is a 3270 keyboard....
https://sharktastica.co.uk/directory?id=94OROEAU