[GreenKeys] An interesting article regarding the Model 37 Teletype

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

(Okay, let's not have the stupid mail client send a draft when I
Alt+Tab, that is exceptionally annoying.)

As I was saying. [cont'd]...ASCII '67 with an even parity bit (wasn't
that already in use on most ASCII teleprinters any way already?).

The only other stuff I know of are strange odd miscellaneous codes I
found on Dik Winter's website. Some of which would have been quite
interesting had they been used more widely used (like the interesting
Pegasus-Flexowriter; which gives you full upper and lowercase in a
five-bit code with four shift modes).

Cheers to you, and sorry about the double post.



On 10 February 2011 13:17, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
<captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone;
>
> Being bored, and exasperated by a chemistry assignment (I hate organic
> chemistry); I stumbled upon this article:
> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/c160049a003
>
> It's quite the ingenious modification of the Model 37 so that it could
> print out not only text but chemical diagrams as well. I wonder if any
> of those modified Model 37's survived. If they did, that would be
> quite interesting. Though admittedly, they wouldn't be of all that
> much use, save to the occasional chemistry student, and then of course
> the teleprinter wouldn't be as versatile as something like ACD/Lab in
> drawing of structures.
>
> Any one else know of any interesting modifications and/or character
> sets for any model teletype? The only ones I know of are, in five-bit:
> American S-Bell codes (weather, commercial and standard), CCITT #2
> J-Bell (and it's minuscule number of variants caused by using the
> national use codes), and the German ALCOR set for programming in Algol
> 60 (mmm... ALGOL). And in 7-bit I know of the ASCII variants, and the
> strange CCITT #3 (which was an odd 3-of-7 code). I also know of the
> 6-bit CCITT #4 which was basically "here's 5-bit CCITT #2 with an
> extra bit, and three more control symbols. DO NOT USE THE EXTRA
> TWENTY-NINE CODE POINTS EVER." There's also 8-bit CCITT #5; which was
> 7-bit ASCII '67 with an even parity bit (
>