24 Jun
2005
24 Jun
'05
6:25 p.m.
I have a Flexowriter and I'm pretty certain that it doesn't use 8 bit
code. IIRC It uses five or six bits. I'll try to remember to go look tomorrow.
Joe
At 12:57 PM 6/24/05 -0400, you wrote:
>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at
siconic.com> writes:
Vintage> I have some paper tapes that I'm trying to read and I have
Vintage> good reason to believe they are from a Wang machine of some
Vintage> type.
Vintage> They seem to hold some sort of document. The writing on the
Vintage> tape indicates a section number and "pages".
Vintage> The tape is 8-level. The 8th bit seems to be used as some
Vintage> sort of end-of-line or end-of-record marker. The 7th bit
Vintage> seems to be parity. So the actual symbol codes are likely
Vintage> 6-bit.
I don't have the specific code at hand or in my memory, but that
sounds a lot like a common Flexowriter code. 8th bit by itself for
carriage return fits, as does parity in bit 7.
paul