27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
7:50 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Ronald Natalie wrote:
<I used SCOPE and NOS/BE in the mid-70s, much has been lost....>
I seem to recall both 6 bit and a larger field that handled upper/lower
case; I have no recollection of the names of the encoding. I do distinctly
remember that for the six bit set, 0 was used for both ':' and
end-of-string; trailing colons on a line would disappear.
-- Charles
The other fun character set was the old UNIVAC
Fielddata. There were no
non printing characters and in fact not even a null value (the 0 value
was called master space and printed as @).
What was the character set used by CDC? 60-bit words, of 10 6-bit
"characters",
as I recall... I thought it was Fielddata, but you're saying that that's
Univac's.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."