Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!ornitz
From: ornitz@kodak.UUCP (Barry Ornitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BAUDOT => ASCII Conversion
Summary: hardware
Keywords: BAUDOT, ASCII, ITA-2, conversion
Message-ID: <2363@kodak.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 90 23:33:24 GMT
References: <1500@bmers58.UUCP>
Reply-To: ornitz@kodak.UUCP (Barry Ornitz)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY
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In article <1500@bmers58.UUCP> billybob@bnr-public.UUCP () writes:
>Does anybody know of a program, either PD or commercial, which will read
>BAUDOT input from a serial port and convert it to ASCII, to output on 
>another serial port?
>
>If not, does anybody know of a board that will do this?  This would be 
>very helpful for allowing me to send data to a commercial ASCII printer,
>instead of an EX$PEN$IVE BAUDOT teletype printer.
At one time, National Semiconductor had a ROM chip that would take parallel
Murray (Baudot) code and convert it to ASCII or vice-versa.  I do not think
it is still available however.

Your need is a common one for ham radio operators who still use Baudot and
ASCII both.  In fact, TTY for the blind is almost identical to the older
systems of RTTY used by hams.

At one time, the American Radio Relay League of Newington, CT published a
design for a teletype "stunt-box" that would take any speed of Murray
commonly used (and there are many) and convert it to 300 baud ASCII.  This was
published in their _QST_ magazine for amateur radio operators.

Several BBS systems specializing in software for the deaf also have software
like this.  You might ask on the misc.handicapped newsgroup.  Good luck.

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