Talk:Elliott 803

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[edit] Elliott 803 emulator on ICT/ICL 1900

ex-Elliott buffs may not be aware that ICT/ICL developed an 803 emulator for its 1900 series computers. I was involved in a project in the 1970s, using this software to replace an ageing 803 by a 1901A or 1902A. The customer, a large German building company, had a lot of technical programs running on the 803 (from paper tape), so we had to come up with a way of porting these to run from disc under Exec. --TraceyR 18:18, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

I have largely rewritten the entry to remove the dependence on copyright material (which is currently inaccessible anyway). Richard Pinch 21:09, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

The 803 did not use Baudot code, it used Elliott telecode, in which the letters were arranged in alphabetical order.

12*4$=78',+:-.%0()3?56/@9£
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

The last five codes are figure shift, space, carriage return, line feed and letter shift.

PeterO (talk) 08:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)