Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> It replaces what was there before in the same position
>> on the punched tape with what could be seen as a "NOP".
>> If my memory doesn't fail me...
> 
> Totally correct. (not surprising, knowing that you are a bit older than 
> my average student)
> 

Probably correct... :-)

Found a nice page with the historical background
to the lower 32 "control chars" (and DEL) in the ASCII table.

http://nemesis.lonestar.org/reference/telecom/codes/ascii.html

A *lot* of intersting historical facts about computing in
general there ! :-)

Enjoy.

Jan-Erik.
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