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Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952

From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952
Date	2021-07-24 21:35 +0000
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On 2021-07-23, undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 5:05:20 PM UTC-4, Dan Espen wrote:
>
>> I suspect that term appeared AFTER the term EBCDIC was invented. 
>> Before S/360 was announced the only term I remember was BCD. 
>> There were never any pretensions that BCD was an "interchange" code. 
>> I believe IBM snuck that term "interchange" in there to justify not 
>> using ASCII. 
>
> + 1
>
> It got confusing in data centers with multiple types of computers, one EBCDIC,
> one BCD.  Often such sites had an 026 and 029 keypunches.  The basic
> characters were the same, but certain special characters were different.
>
> One could use either keypunch, but would need to know the proper substitution
> which could be tedious.

The fun thing I discovered was that although the glyphs were different,
the key at any given location on the keyboard punched the same combination
of holes regardless of whether it had a BCD or an EBCDIC code plate.
Thus, if you could touch-type the BCD keyboard, you could sit down at
an EBCDIC machine and create your card deck (and vice versa with a few
gotchas, see below).  The special characters printed on the cards would
be wrong, but the computer would see exactly what you wanted.  That came
in handy at university, where there would often be a line-up for one
flavour of keypunch while the other ones stood empty.

The one catch was the the 026 couldn't punch everything that a 029
could; you'd have to resort to the multi-punch key for the less-used
characters.

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Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-07-20 12:14 -0700
  Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-07-21 01:46 +0000
    Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2021-07-22 14:46 +0000
      Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 chris <chris-nospam@tridac.net> - 2021-07-22 17:37 +0100
        Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-22 16:47 +0000
          Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-07-22 17:51 +0100
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-07-22 17:25 +0000
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-07-22 18:10 +0100
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-07-23 00:13 +0000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 TrailingEdgeTechnologies <bbreynolds@aol.com> - 2021-07-22 19:32 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 TrailingEdgeTechnologies <bbreynolds@aol.com> - 2021-07-22 19:44 -0700
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-07-22 15:14 -0400
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-07-22 20:52 +0100
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-07-22 17:05 -0400
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-07-23 09:13 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-07-23 11:48 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-07-23 20:13 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-07-24 21:35 +0000
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-07-22 21:10 +0100
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-07-22 14:16 -0600
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2021-07-22 17:08 -0400
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 TrailingEdgeTechnologies <bbreynolds@aol.com> - 2021-07-22 20:08 -0700
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-23 16:18 +0000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Louis Krupp <lkrupp@invalid.pssw.com.invalid> - 2021-07-24 11:54 -0600
          Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-07-25 21:51 +0100
            Re: sixbit, the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-07-25 21:12 +0000
              Re: sixbit, the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-07-26 05:32 +0000
                Re: sixbit, the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2021-07-26 08:39 +0000
                Re: sixbit, the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-07-26 12:21 +0100
                Re: sixbit, the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-07-26 18:45 -0400
                Re: sixbit, the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2021-07-27 11:29 +0100
        Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 TrailingEdgeTechnologies <bbreynolds@aol.com> - 2021-07-22 19:43 -0700
          Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-07-23 11:46 -0700
    Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-07-23 11:56 -0700
      Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-07-23 16:27 -0700
        Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-08-07 12:38 -0700
          Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-08-07 20:04 +0000
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-08-07 22:24 +0100
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-08-07 22:27 +0100
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-08-10 11:49 -0700
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-08-10 15:34 -0400
          Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-08-07 18:13 -0700
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-08-10 11:45 -0700
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-08-11 06:36 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-08-11 08:00 -0700
          Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-08-10 10:57 -0700
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-10 18:29 +0000
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-08-10 11:54 -0700
            Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-08-10 19:44 +0000
              Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-08-13 12:26 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2021-08-13 09:49 -1000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-08-16 12:52 -0700
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-08-16 20:06 +0000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-16 23:31 +0000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-08-17 15:41 +0000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-08-18 16:38 +0000
                Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-08-18 18:29 +0100
      Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2021-07-27 18:12 -1000
        Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2021-07-27 18:49 -1000

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