Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print 3858

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:46:28 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler

I happen to be familiar with that site!

I hope it was in jest!

My university, which used MTS, used a PDP-11 as a front-end communications processor, but I have no idea if there was any politics behind it. I figured it was just cheaper than whatever IBM had... or, more importantly, it was being used to connect standard cheap non-IBM terminals like LA36 Decwriters and Tektronix 4010s to the computer.

Speaking of ASCII, my page on punched card codes wasn't really complete, as it didn't include the official standard for punching ASCII into cards.

I see the PDP-10, at least, converted to conformance with that standard during its lifetime, and they did so at the university I went to too (by then, their computer was an Amdahl 470 V-6 rather than the IBM 360-67 they had when I started my studies). I always thought it was rather silly to consider PL-I to be more important than the standard punctuation used with the English language...

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