[GreenKeys] Xerox used teletype model 35 but not ASCII or (the case of the missing CTL Key?)

[Jeffrey D Angus]

On 3/29/2015 9:42 AM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> I sure don't claim to know - but Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems
> which had a very popular time shared computer system.  The machines were
> rather similar to the IBM 360 line; I don't know if they used ASCII
> or EBCDIC.  But possibly you have a console terminal from a Xerox
> computer. 
I was working at Xerox around 1983 or so.
They still had the "beast" down in the basement. Sigma-7 I think.
The thing that struck me was the use of a 43 bit word.
About the same time Xerox was dumping the remaining stock of
820 computers on their employees. 8" floppy drives, Whee! And the,
I think, Diablo daisy wheel printers.



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