Re: Extending 5-level code

From: Norman Brooks (nbrooks@accesscable.net)
Date: 03/27/03 

From: "Norman Brooks" <nbrooks@accesscable.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:38:52 -0400

Could well have been as the original baudot code listed 00000 as 'unused'.
However, as 11111 and 11011 switched between letters and figures and almost
all of the "lower case" characters (in CAPS on most machines) had numbers or
special characters on the other 'case' it's hard to figure out how you would
switch back.

They would have had to have their own special machines which could switch
back after every iteration of a "caps" letter. This would severely slow the
machine if any large amount of capitalized characters needed to be sent !

"George R. Gonzalez" <grg@umn.edu> wrote in message
news:b5srm3$ike$1@lenny.tc.umn.edu...
> Back around 1980, I was tuning in some 5-level AP news on the shortwave
> bands.
> I noticed the tty was sputtering a bit at the beginning of every sentence,
> and at a few
> other times. By turning on the tape punch, I figured out that AP had
some
> ad-hoc
> capitalization convention-- a null character (00000) meant the next
> character was upper-case,
> otherwise I guess everything else was lower case.
>
> I wonder how prevalent this was, and if it was a "standard" of some sort.
>
> Regards,
>
> George
>
>
>
>
> 

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