Project 465-L used an 8-bit code but only 7 bits were
significant. It was called Field Data code. IBM's code,
EBCDIC, we just called it "ib see dick."
I was the programmer who wrote and debugged those
routines that handled input/output terminal messages
of Project 465-L I also designed message switching
between those four interconected computers (crosstel).
Many hours spent under ground at Omaha and in a
hangar at Barksdale.
73 de Joe, aa4nn
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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
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