11 Dec
2004
11 Dec
'04
4:38 p.m.
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, John C. Ellingboe wrote:
Teletype Corp. Models 14, 15, 19 and 26 for a few plus
some by other
companies used Baudot code. Some of those were interfaced to early
micros for lack of a better/cheap console at the time.
It's often called "baudot", even the ARRL handbook calls it that,
but it's actually ITA-2. Baudot has accented characters and
"No." and a few oddballs, no format effectors (eg. CR, LF, etc).
I never could figure out how "baudot" became the vernacular
for ita2 tty code.
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