[Elecraft] OT - Type font question

[Phil Kane]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:06:45 -0700, Bill W5WVO wrote:

> Nice to know that IBM didn't successfully dictate everything in
> the computer world -- nor does even Microsoft do so today.

  In the early 1960s everyone had their own alphanumeric digital
  code.  I was working on Project 465-L, the USAF SAC Command and
  Control System, where the message switch computers were built by
  ITT and used an alphabet called 465-L Field Code.  I was an
  equipment configuration and test engineer but I shared a cubicle
  with Bob Mayer, a system programmer who was a pretty sharp guy.
  A few years later, Bob was asked to sit on a committee called
  the American Standards Committee for Information Interchange.
  The IBM rep was pounding the table for adoption of their EBCDIC
  code and Bob pounded the table for adoption of the 465-L Field Code.

  Bob won.  It's now called "ASCII" after the initials of the
  Committee.

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