On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
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.
That's what I thought as well, but I couldn't find any references to
Flexowriter encoding either :(
The problem is there are MANY flexowriter codes. Flexos were
customized for all sorts of installations. There is no single
standard code. The one attached to my LGP-21, for example, is
modified to generate LGP-21 opcodes ("B" generates the BRING
opcode, for example).
You'll need to find the code used with the Wang product(s)
or use standard code-breaking techniques to work it out.
Should be easy since it's plaintext.