17 Jun
1997
17 Jun
'97
12:58 a.m.
DOes anyone have a computer which uses the EBCDIC
character set, rather than
ASCII (did I get the acronym right? what does it stand for anyway)?
I've never heard of a microcomputer that used EBCDIC, but there are a lot of
things of which I've never heard. It is used in IBM mainframes and minis.
Here at HUD we have a Hitachi mainframe that emulates an IBM, and it uses
EBCDIC internally. We have file transfer utilities that take care of
translating into ASCII as necessary.
What does it stand for? Gee, it's been a long time. Let's see.
According to the "SAS Compantion for the MVS Environment," it stands
for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. That sounds redundant,
but that's IBM for you.
--Dav
david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov
17 Jun
17 Jun
6:05 a.m.
DOes anyone
have a computer which uses the EBCDIC character set, rather than
ASCII (did I get the acronym right? what does it stand for anyway)?
I've never heard of a microcomputer that used EBCDIC, 
6:37 a.m.
Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, William Donzelli said:
What did that original IBM personal computer disaster (5100) use?
AFAIK, the "disaster" used ASCII as well, but IIRC IBM wanted to make APL a
household word, and I think at first, they didn't even offer BASIC for it.
If y'all think OS-9 or Unix is cryptic, APL is *not* the programming
language for you. ;-)
See ya,
"Merch"
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> > DOes anyone have a computer which uses the
EBCDIC character set,
rather than
ASCII (did I get the acronym right? what does it
stand for anyway)?
I've never heard of a microcomputer that used EBCDIC, 
7:22 a.m.
New subject: Digital Controls Inc. Training Cartridges?
A while back, I "saved" some cartridges from being tossed. The label
says "Digital Controls, Learning Center, Multiplan (title varies
depending on cartridge), Registerd Trademark of Microsoft Corporations,
Copyright Digital Controls, Inc." The other titles I have are "Preview
1", "Lotus", "dBase II", "Wordstar", "IBM
PC", and "Multimate". Anyone
out there know what these are and what they go to? Thanks!
8:36 a.m.
New subject: Digital Controls Inc. Training Cartridges?
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Marvin wrote:
A while back, I "saved" some cartridges from
being tossed. The label
says "Digital Controls, Learning Center, Multiplan (title varies
depending on cartridge), Registerd Trademark of Microsoft Corporations,
Copyright Digital Controls, Inc." The other titles I have are "Preview
1", "Lotus", "dBase II", "Wordstar", "IBM
PC", and "Multimate". Anyone
out there know what these are and what they go to? Thanks!
Probably carts for the PCjr. If so, those are pretty rare.
Sam
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9 Jul
9 Jul
6:22 a.m.
New subject: Digital Controls Inc. Training Cartridges?
Marvin wrote:
A while back, I "saved" some cartridges from being tossed. The label
says "Digital Controls, Learning Center, Multiplan (title varies
depending on cartridge), Registerd Trademark of Microsoft Corporations,
Copyright Digital Controls, Inc."
In the process of going through stuff, I found some manuals that
apparently went with these cartridges. In the "Materials and Equipment
Needed", they make reference to a Digital Controls Learning Center. In
addition to the Center, the user needs a computer with the software (for
the program being taught) properly installed. It sure sounds like this
is some sort of teaching machine. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
21 Jul
21 Jul
3:03 a.m.
New subject: Are we gatewayed to a bit.listserv group?
I know a lot of these mailing lists are gatewayed to a newsgroup in a
special bit.listserv hierarchy. That might me a good idea for this group,
as the volume of messages here as gotten too unwieldy for e-mail. (I have
over a thousand messages unread from this group alone).
I'll be out of town for a week, so I'll need to temporarily unsubscribe
(although I really hate to miss anything). But, i'll be back. . .
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17 Jun
17 Jun
6:49 a.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Differences?
In checking through the TRS-80 Model I computers, I noticed two
different catalog numbers, 26-1001 and 26-1006. I also noticed that one
of the 26-001 computer has a sticker saying "Note - This unit has the
lower case modification kit installed (Cat. No. 26-1104.) Since most of
these machines have been previously owned by early computer users,
needless to say most have been modified in one way or another. Anyone
know the differences between the different catalog numbers? Thanks.
27 Nov
27 Nov
9:07 p.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Differences?
In checking through the TRS-80 Model I computers, I
noticed two
different catalog numbers, 26-1001 and 26-1006. I also noticed that one
of the 26-001 computer has a sticker saying "Note - This unit has the
lower case modification kit installed (Cat. No. 26-1104.) Since most of
these machines have been previously owned by early computer users,
needless to say most have been modified in one way or another. Anyone
know the differences between the different catalog numbers? Thanks.
Looking through the October 1978 copy of Personal Computer World, the
26-1001 was the 4k Model 1 Level 1. The catalogue numbers go as follows,
cost includes a B/W monitor and tape deck:
26-1001 - 4K ROM 4K RAM Costs 499.00 UK Pounds
26-1004 - 12K ROM 4K RAM Costs 578.00 UK Pounds
26-1003 - 4K ROM 16K RAM Costs 728.00 UK Pounds
26-1006 - 12K ROM 16K RAM Costs 807.00 UK Pounds
Hope this is of some help to you.
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