tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 04 21:06:54 1998
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Re: DaHjaj QIn
mujang SuStel:
>EBCIDIC 'oH'a'? loSben EBCIDIC vIlo'nIS. munuQ. taQ.
ghobe'. "DEC DISPLAY" ngoq rur, 'ach loQ pIm.
ram ngoq jay'! mu'mey DIghItlhlaH. yap.
The Control Data computers on which this system ran had 60-bit words.
Alphanumeric data was encoded six bits at a time, and ten characters
fit in each word. Special characters indicated things like "the next
letter is uppercase" or "superscript" or "half-backspace". It wasn't
like much of anything used today. That was merely the storage format
for the characters; the transmission protocol was quite different, as
data was sent to the terminals in 3-character chunks and had framing
and error-check bits attached. But I'm sure nobody cares about this.
-- ghunchu'wI'