Re: Binary formats

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El 29/03/2012 02:31 p.m., Helmut_Meukel escribió:
> Am 29.03.2012 schrieb R.Wieser:
>> Hello Helmut,
>>
>>> Not ASCII, but the originally 5-bit Baudot code:
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code>
>>> used for teleprinters.
>>
>> Yes, I know.  I just checked, and I've *still* got a punch-tape lying here,
>> containing pin-up ASCII-art . :-)
>>
>> I've never seen it used on computers though.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rudy Wieser
> 
> About 1976 we purchased a computerized weighting system for our dyehouse,
> it was a HP 9815S with 3 scales connected by RS232.
> The protocols were printed using a teleprinter. There was a tiny
> microcomputer connected to the HP 9815S for translating the ASCII output
> of the 9815S into the code the teleprinter could understand.
> IIRC, this tiny microcomputer was a KIM-1 (or something alike), it didn't
> look really professional.
> 
> My first programming experience was with this HP 9815S, but I never
> looked into the hardware and software used to get the output to the
> teleprinter. I don't even know what code was used with this teleprinter,
> I only know it wasn't ASCII.
> 
> Helmut.
> 
> 

Many old teleprinters use badout code, this is smaller than ascii, uses
5 bits per character.

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