[Elecraft] Wayne...Eric...K2 with USB anytime soon??

[Phil Kane]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:04:54 -0700 (PDT), Fred (FL) wrote:

>Being able to transmit or receive a document,
>from your desktop typewriter - was a big deal,
>in 1978. Messages, documents, etc.  All based on TTY
>and RS-232. Of course, all over phone or data lines.

  We did that in 1962 on USAF-SAC Project 465-L (The Strategic
  Air Command Control System, an all-electronic store-and-forward
  message system) using modified IBM Selectrics and a weird collection
  of printers.  No big deal then, and certainly not by 1978.

  Although the system itself was upgraded and replaced long ago,
  one part still remains -- the digital character code we used
  became what we now know as "ASCII", primarily because my then
  office-mate (Bob Mayer) was selected to be on the ASCII committee
  (ASCII then stood for American Standard Code for Information
  Interchange) and was amost single-handedly successful in getting
  the "465-L Code" adapted instead of IBM's EBDBIC (?) code.

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