"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
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Hey, don't malign the ASR-33. It was the only input and output device on
the Nova II I had in grad school. Paper tape input will make a man of
you.
Of course I hated it, but don't be unkind. :-)


ASR33? That's 8-level ASCII!!!

REAL men used 5-level baudot paper tapes with the shift-up-shift-down
characters for numbers-letters. Your aviation weather report (SA,
fore-runner of today's METAR) had to be decoded from something like this:

QWEXQTXUXEYQOXOOW

whenever the local machine failed to execute the appropriate
shift-up-to-numbers.