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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: YALE terminal communications software wanted
Summary: It's an IBM mainframe type system.
Message-ID: <3035@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 00:00:16 GMT
References: <2784@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
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In article <2784@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
> Every now and then I connect to a system that greets you with
> 
> YALE ASCII TERMINAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM {some version number here}

This is the banner for a program written at Yale which runs on an
IBM Series 1 minicomputer to handle ASCII communications for IBM
mainframe and compatible computers.

Remember, those are not ASCII machines, they run an old character
coding derived from punch cards call EBCDIC (extended binary coded
decimal interchange code) -- the eight bit version of the six bit
BCD code used on the IBM 702 and 705 of late 1950's vintage.

These were the commercial data processing equivalents to the more
science/engineering oriented 701 and 704.

All of the above were vacuum tube machines.

 Thos Sumner       Internet: thos@cca.ucsf.edu
 (The I.G.)        UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos
                   BITNET:  thos@ucsfcca

 U.S. Mail:  Thos Sumner, Computer Center, Rm U-76, UCSF
             San Francisco, CA 94143-0704 USA

I hear nothing in life is certain but death and taxes -- and they're
working on death.

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