On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:04:54 -0700 (PDT), Fred (FL) wrote: >Being able to transmit or receive a document, >from your desktop typewriter - was a big deal, >in 1978. Messages, documents, etc. All based on TTY >and RS-232. Of course, all over phone or data lines.
We did that in 1962 on USAF-SAC Project 465-L (The Strategic Air Command Control System, an all-electronic store-and-forward message system) using modified IBM Selectrics and a weird collection of printers. No big deal then, and certainly not by 1978. Although the system itself was upgraded and replaced long ago, one part still remains -- the digital character code we used became what we now know as "ASCII", primarily because my then office-mate (Bob Mayer) was selected to be on the ASCII committee (ASCII then stood for American Standard Code for Information Interchange) and was amost single-handedly successful in getting the "465-L Code" adapted instead of IBM's EBDBIC (?) code. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 5402 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
