Post #3329662
2026-06-15 04:19 UTC
@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca I don’t think it’s dot matrix. I think each line is a character encoding. Like ASCII, but before ASCII.
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-06-15 04:24
@mwichary@mastodon.online I was being facetious, but also confused because I’m not sure what this gear actually does.
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@Flies4no1@mastodon.nl 2026-06-15 08:02
@mwichary@mastodon.online @michaelgemar@cosocial.ca In its 5 “elements per character” setting it provides 5-bit “Baudot/ITA2” encoding. Baudot was a fun guy, invented telecommunications as a science in the Victorian age and would have been thrilled knowing we send data with Baudrates in the GHz range now.