Re: byteoffset() in lutf8lib.c from 5.3, work2

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 14/05/2014 10.50, Tim Hill wrote:
> Pretty much .. though it’s paper tape not punched cards .. a “hole”
> was a 1, non-hole a 0, so the only way to erase a character was to
> punch out ALL the holes, hence 127 (the 8th bit was nominally a
> parity bit). In fact, DEL is really “IGNORE” since when reading the
> tape and 127 codes were usually silently skipped by the computer or
> reader.

Very interesting, thanks for the information!
(my first 6502 assembler for the KIM-1 was on punched tape; the tape had 
a spurious hole and we had to find and fix the wrong byte in memory to 
avoid waiting for a replacement)

--
  Enrico