We used to tell the green 2LTs that the "Old Man" wanted a chad count by 1600 that day. Then we avoided the little S.O.B for the next couple of days ;-)
Cub ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Kellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:17 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Re degree symbology via keyboard > I remember entering 7-bit ASCII paper-tape of machine langauge programming > via the old TTY-28 when I was aboard the USS Ranger...state of the art stuff > at that time. Times have changed, but at least when something broke then we > actually fixed the cause of the problem rather than simply change out the > card. > > Regards, > > > Ron > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Tutelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:05 AM > Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Re degree symbology via keyboard > > > > At 08:11 PM 1/28/04 -0800, Joe Yablonski wrote: > > >Back from the old teletype days, there was a code set up for describing > > >key strokes. > > >ASCII--- American standard code for information interchange. > > > > > >Besides the regular letters and numbers, there are several other symbols > > >that you can transmit... > > > > Actually, it was the NEW teletype days. Teletype was about to become a > > waning technology by the time ASCII was introduced. (Not many folks in > > datacomm today were also working in datacomm when ASCII was adopted. I > > guess I establish my old phart credentials by pleading guilty to that.) > > > > But the degree sign was not part of the ASCII code set. It was in the IA5, > > the international alphabet for data communications, which had room for > > twice as many characters as ASCII did. > > > > I can review the gory history if anybody cares. But I hope nobody does; it > > isn't really that interesting. > > > > Cheers! > > DaveT > > > > > >
