"Nick Demos" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> > The term "baud" comes from the old "baudot" encoding which, if you
> > will permit me to bypass thorough reference checks and go on my aging
> > memory, was a 5 or 6 bit encoding used ages ago for datacomm (forget
> > the 300 baud, this was when 110 was the rule).  The equations change
> > a bit with reference to "bytes/sec" or more accurately "chars/sec"
> >
> FWIW, Baudot was a six bit code used for teletypes and telegrams.  One
> bit was used for control (exactly what I don't remember), so it is really
a
> five bit
> code.  There was an up shift and a down shift character to handle upper
and
> lower case.
>
> Nick D.
>
Baudot Code was a Five (5) bit code with two of the characters being shift
to letters and shift to numbers.

See  http://telecom.tbi.net/baudot.html for the values.

When I started at HP in 1970, they were receiving messages from Japan to
California at about one character per second over teletypes.  I coded a
reader program to convert the Baudot to ASCII for submission to HP's
internal messaging system.  Ahhh!!!  the good olde days.....

James Overman