31 Oct
2006
31 Oct
'06
6:07 p.m.
On 31 Oct 2006 at 17:33, Billy Pettit wrote:
Sorry. I grew up in the world of BCD and 6 bit
characters. CDC finally
started cutting in ASCII in the late 60's, but with little enthusiasm.
...yup, my 7600 quick reference card has ASCII on it in addition to
BCD and card punch codes. I never could figure out what the ASCII
column was for. OTOH, the Cyber 200/STAR machines were strictly
ASCII boxes--but they also used 8 bit characters.
Cheers,
Chuck