[GreenKeys] Teletype and electronics........

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RCA also had ttys that were Extended Binary Coded Decimal  Interchange Code 
(EBCDIC) is an 8-bit character encoding for the  RCA Spectra 70 computer 
too!
Ed#

 
 
In a message dated 4/9/2013 2:07:37 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

On Tue,  9 Apr 2013, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>   Through some convoluted  thought process (I have a lot of them) it 
occurs 
> to me to ask about  the machines used by RCA Communications. RCA used a 
> seven-unit ARQ  code called the Moore code (after John B Moore).  Does 
anyone 
>  know if the received code was used directly by the machines or if it was 
 
> translated to 5-unit Beaudot code?  Did RCA use standard  teleprinters or 
make 
> (or have made) their own?

I don't know  the answers to all of that, but I did once see a Teletype
GPE perforator  that punched 7-level code and had RCA on the name  plate.
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