[GreenKeys] ASCII replacing Baudot

[steve bennett]

 I did IT for the DOD for 26 years.They had something called the "Messaging System".It used all caps until 2013!I suspect this was a holdover from the teletype days.Of course teletypes were long gone when I started in the 1990s.It was all computers but the software was horrible antiquated crap!Government off the shelf (AKA GOTS) is the worst crap you have ever seen.Commercial off the shelf (AKA COTS) was lightyears ahead.
-Steve
    On Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 07:52:28 AM EST, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I was only thinking about comms stuff in the field or shipboard. But you of course are right about computer systems. 
Can’t imagine how long a M33 would last shipboard! M40 and other VDT gear was also installed shipboard in the mid-1980s, but communication was via Baudot. 
Was AUTODIN ASCII?

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 11:56 PM steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:

  that's interesting!   The major Air Force computer systems (base supply and personnel) were being upgraded by the late 70s' to 33s or VDTs of various types so they jumped past the comm teams.
 
 Steve
 
 
 On 12/8/24 3:34 PM, Nick England wrote:
  
 I don’t think there was any military ASCII until the mid-1990s or later when email began to appear. Certainly, ships in the 1980s were still being outfitted with Model 28 Baudot equipment. 
 
       Nick England K4NYW
 www.navy-radio.com
         
  
  On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 6:11 PM steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
  
  newbie question from a 33 person:   was the military TTY hardware in 1969 (like the stuff here)  still running Baudot or had they switched to ASCII by then?



 
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