Wang paper tape format?

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Sat Jun 25 15:52:48 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Joe" == Joe R <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> writes:

 Joe> I have a Flexowriter and I'm pretty certain that it doesn't use
 Joe> 8 bit code. IIRC It uses five or six bits. I'll try to remember
 Joe> to go look tomorrow.

It varies.  There are assorted different Flexowriter codes.  I'm
positive that one of the ones used at the Technical University
Eindhoven used bit 8 (alone) for the carriage return code, while all
other codes indeed used only the bottom 7 bits.

      paul



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