From: bbreynolds@aol.com   
      
   On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 12:11:05 AM UTC-5, TrailingEdgeTechnologies   
   wrote:   
      
      
   > In that the original SABRE terminals were modified Selectric typewriter   
   mechanisms, the "unASCII protocol" was likely PTTC/BCD (paper tape   
   transmission code/binary coded data), which was a six-bit code which directly   
   mapped into the tilt and rotate    
   position commands for the type ball. My Specton Datascope from the late 1970s   
   can be set to capture PTTC.   
      
   c/Specton/Spectron/: midnight typing always dangerous   
      
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