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

[Hans Vlems]

On 1 aug, 17:01, Paul Sture <p... at sture.ch> wrote:
> 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

IIRC The ICL 1900 used some form of EBCDIC. For sure it wasn't
compatible with the cards punched on a Burroughs B7700.