Topic: a neat thing about the teletype machines, in use most of the twentieth century

boof started this discussion 2 years ago #114,220

There was a bell in the machine that you could code as a non-printing character. Newsrooms would receive stories with a number of bells preceding to indicate important news! They started with 5-bit coding, then later came the 8-bit. These were akin to the computer ASCII character codes still used today. For instance, a plain text file can contain a variety of non-printing characters.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 16 hours later[^] [v] #1,264,282

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AND?

boof (OP) replied with this 2 years ago, 1 hour later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,264,293

for instance, the end-of-line character and carriage-return character are present. The carriage is the physical body of the moving typing set.

Minichan