On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:06:45 -0700, Bill W5WVO wrote: > Nice to know that IBM didn't successfully dictate everything in > the computer world -- nor does even Microsoft do so today.
In the early 1960s everyone had their own alphanumeric digital code. I was working on Project 465-L, the USAF SAC Command and Control System, where the message switch computers were built by ITT and used an alphabet called 465-L Field Code. I was an equipment configuration and test engineer but I shared a cubicle with Bob Mayer, a system programmer who was a pretty sharp guy. A few years later, Bob was asked to sit on a committee called the American Standards Committee for Information Interchange. The IBM rep was pounding the table for adoption of their EBCDIC code and Bob pounded the table for adoption of the 465-L Field Code. Bob won. It's now called "ASCII" after the initials of the Committee. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 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
