Klarinet Archive - Posting 001460.txt from 2000/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] ASCII [Still WOT]
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:47:27 -0500

Dan,
1963 was the first issuance of the ASCII standard; since the term wasn't
"standardized" before that it, of course, could have meant anything!

The standard was proposed to the ASA (the forerunner of ANSI) in 1961 by Bob
Bemer who at that moment in time worked for IBM. Most references say that
ANSI adopted it, but since ANSI only dates from 1969 those references are
technically incorrect. It was blessed as Standard X3.4 in 1963.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] ASCII

> Anyone is permitted to correct me and even chastise me (which you did
> not and for which I thank you), but in 1956, when the term was first
> used, the "C" stood for "Character." What I really am is obsolete and
> out of date more than just completely wrong. I just realized that I
> passed out of middle age.
>
> Mark Charette wrote:
> >
> > Dan,
> > I've got to correct you here. In 1963 it was standardized and stood for
> >
> > American
> > Standard
> > Code for
> > Information
> > Interchange
> >
> > 7 bit only (0-127) in 1963.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:36 AM
> > Subject: [kl] ASCII
> >
> > > American
> > > Standard
> > > Character
> > > Information
> > > Interchange
> > >
> > > ASCII
> > > --
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