[Info-vax] AlphaVM-free emulator with all additional peripheral components

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:30:32 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> Octets did eventually become the common unit of character encoding, but
> that took many years.
> 
> The UNIVAC 1100 series running EXEC-8 had 36-bit words, with 6-bit
> FIELDATA, and 9-bit ASCII character encodings.  DEC had a few of its own
> odd-ball character encodings, and some of the detritus of that era (eg:
> RAD50) still lurks in a few very dark corners of VMS.

The ICL 1900 series machines used 24 bit words, which could be used as 
four 6 bit characters.  IIRC parity came into the mix as well, though 
that might have been on the later 2900 series.

ISTR 48 character keyboards from that era.

-- 
Paul Sture