[Premium-Rx] RF-590 A17 Remote Control Assembly - Communicate with

[Steve]

Evidently you are unaware of the new paper tape guidance system being 
implemented in the Jovian rover. If you saw the last "standardized form" 
sent to me by some bureacracy, the need for EBCDIC and Baudot formats 
would be quite clear. Perhaps, in Cairo, the need is even greater.

73,

Steve
KL7JT/1
Sudbury, MA



Dave Emery wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:09:47AM +0300, Jim Sorenson wrote:
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>>I wonder if there is anyone out there who has worked with the A17 Remote
>>Control Assembly on the RF-590 (or 1310) who might share with me anything
>>that they have found out about the EBCDIC  codes and protocols that can be
>>sent to the A17 LCU from a terminal by way of  HEX  strings to wake up the
>>EPROM or otherwise provide handshake or, even some measure of basic control.
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>	At the risk of asking a slightly odd question, do you really
>mean EBCDIC ?
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>	I have never heard of anyone creating firmware based on  EBCDIC
>character sets, at least in the last 25 years and outside of IBM.
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>	Variations on ASCII are so much the standard that the news
>Harris (or the US government) chose EBCDIC for controlling a HF receiver
>is really surprising.
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