[GreenKeys] Teletype ASR33 - approximate date of introduction: 1963

[Roy Morgan]

On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:12 AM, gil smith wrote:

> And 1963 was also the debut of ASCII -- which brings up a couple of  
> questions:  Did the folks at Teletype Corp design ascii?

I was not there, but some folks from the then-National Bureau of  
Standards most likely were.  Do a Google search on "national standard  
ASCII" and you can read a lot.

NBS certainly published the standard as a FIPS - Federal Information  
Processing Standard:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/History%20Documents/FIPS%201.pdf
This one is dated Nov 1968.  I have a copy of ASCII, and what I have  
is likely the ANSI version giving all the details.  The above FIPS  
officially adopts the ANSI standard and does not have tables of codes  
and letters and the like.

Roy

Roy Morgan
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