Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: IBM models 91, 195 & CDC 7600 Date: 1 Aug 2020 19:56:15 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <0ffcf911-d675-4b8d-9d7b-2723e6122bdbo@googlegroups.com> <948acf04-5d36-480f-89fa-fb03ec1e3bc5o@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZROdAO2SnkIIIz24xItDdQjBxQQlhNkTQ6gkEPbrE3Jdonpx/8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WCynm+XZSsNbYfcS946DMEO5Yn0= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:212489 On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 17:27:43 +0000, John Levine wrote: > In article <948acf04-5d36-480f-89fa-fb03ec1e3bc5o@googlegroups.com>, > wrote: >>On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 5:55:17 PM UTC+10, Quadibloc wrote: >>> On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 9:30:33 PM UTC-6, robin...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> > the fact that CDC had 65 characters stored in 6-bits. >>> >>> At first I thought that meant they had a 390 bit word, but then I >>> realized that what was meant was that... they were using a double-byte >>> character set? >> >>No; characters were only 6 bits. > > How do you store 65 characters in 6 bits? Probably a typo, but...shift characters. See the ICL 1900, for example. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org