[HECnet] BRU tapes, extract on UNIX?

[Clem Cole]

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:47 PM, <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:


I remember the    ANSI    format produced by OS/360.   It faintly resembled real ANSI labels, but the text was encoded in    8 bit ASCII   , an IBM invention that no one else ever used before or since.   I think they took regular 7 bit ASCII and moved the top bit up one     so, for example, A was encoded as 0x81 rather than 0x41 as in real ASCII.   After that discovery, I switched back to IBM    standard labels    (IBM proprietary, in EBCDIC), or more usually, unlabeled since IBM didn   t do useful label processing anyway.


I think I remember getting a few of these from the IBM Cambridge folks.