> On May 22, 2024, at 11:10 AM, Don R via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Control-G
>
> In one of the comments I found this interesting tidbit:
>
> Working at DEC for many years, I learned a lot from Mr. Bell. One of my
> favorite sayings was he calling himself "the industry standard dummy." Which
> simply meant that he approached all new products without pre-conceived
> notions of "how" it should work. He found so many bugs and interface errors
> that way, and taught everyone to do the same. On old computer keyboards one
> used to be able to make a bell ring by typeing CTRL-G. That industry
> standard was set for G. Bell.
That's a nice story but it doesn't seem all that likely. A "bell" code long
predates ASCII where indeed it was Control-G; it showed up decades earlier in
the 5-bit Teletype machines "Baudot" (a.k.a., "Murray") code.
paul
