12 Jan
2011
12 Jan
'11
7:36 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:41:22AM -0000, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Be careful.. Teletypes used for ham radio are Baudot code. Those for US TWX
Hey, I thought you guys steadfastly referred to that as 'Murray code'
technically the proper name for it. ;-)
and computer are Ascii.
Those were the old TTY 15 or TTY 19s. The 19s were the ASR (paper tape).
Some early computer buffs *did* wire those beasts up for printer use
in the very early days. BYTE magazine I believe. UPPER CASE ONLY OF COURSE
but better than nothing back then. I would imagine these are of interest
to some other g33ks too. It would be hard those with a 33 or 35 I'd think.
Regards
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Rod Smallwood G8DGR
- 73 Diane Bruce VA3DB
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