It was essentially Baudot on the way in(some special char diffs) then shifted to numeric on the way out. As I remember the shifted numeric was not any of the existing Baudot variants. Alpha Stock symbols in and numeric stock quotes out. If I remember correctly the first 2 chars selected a head on a magnetic drum and then waited for the last chars match on that head. Every user just had a new card plugged in. Reponses time was not user dependent. 1 user or 1k users. A query just had to wait for rotational latency.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of doc hawk via use-livecode Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 4:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: doc hawk Subject: Re: Guessing the encoding of a test file... [OT] On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just for a laugh... one of the more esoteric codings I used in the quasi modern error (besides EBCDIC) was the 5 bit Quotron stock ticker system in the mid 90s. It used different codes for requesting/receiving quotes because 2^5 is only 32 possible characters. Alpha in/numeric out. They created a *new* five bit, shifted code, rather than just using Baudot???? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
