16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
7:58 a.m.
On 16/08/2005, at 11:36 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
I thought it was CDC who had the slashed Ohs or perhaps it was
Burroughs. In the three universities in Melbourne in the early 70s we
had a DECsystem-10 (La Trobe), Burroughs 7800 (Monash) and a CDC-6000
(Melbourne) and I remember thinking that we'd got the best deal with
the DECsystem-10 although I later learnt that the other two systems
were cool in their own distinct ways.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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>>>> "Tim" == Tim Shoppa <shoppa_classiccmp at
trailing-edge.com> writes:
>>>>
Tim> Several of the Model 33 TTY's I've gone through over the years
Tim> had the "Early" ASCII character assignments (and had a slashed
Tim> letter O and an unslashed number 0).
That doesn't sound like "early ASCII" -- it sounds like the IBM "do
everything differently" convention.