Well my first TTY was a model 15 (5 1/2 bit code, don't forget the 1/2 stop bit!
), used it with a home made decoder unit for Ham Radio HF 'digital' communicatio
ns.  When the 6502 came out the first project was to take output from the model
15 and make perfect morse code.  That was hand coded in machine language, before
 an assembler was available to me.  I was chicken and waited for BASIC to arrive
 before teaching the 6502 to receive morse code and auto-adapt.

Re: CAPITALS:  Usenet and UUCP email has been around since way before windows, a
nd the convention has always been that when you type a word in all capitals you
are YELLING, and that it is not polite, and you expect to see such behavior only
 in a flame when someone has lost it. When you want to *emphasize* something  it
 is polite to surround the something with asterisks.

*Regards*
   Ron Fial

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At 06:05 PM 7/21/98 PDT, you wrote:
>>> Perhaps the use of baudot is the problem (5 bit code) :-).
>
>My first major project after leaving school was to port a newswire reader.
>(Some) Newswires in that timeframe (81) used a 6 bit baudot-like code that
>provided for upper AND lower case character.
>
>Hmm.  Come to think of it, I think that was the last time I designed HW as
>an actual part of my job, too.  Had to convert the 6 bit 75bps characters
>into 8 bit 300bps characters that could be read by a "real computer."
>
> :-)
>BillW
>