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To: WAI who wrote (1148)	11/4/1997 12:23:00 PM
From: Swamp Fox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Good morning William, Thank you for sharing. We believe this news to mean that IBM, HP & SEG are attempting one standard for data coding (HEX decimal format) via magnetic tape on their machines. This standard will be for sale via the liscense that comes with the tape machine you purchased (read the label). For Example: Today, The industry, in HEX decimal format, reconizes ASCII & EBDIC as non-IBM and IBM respectively. You can not exchange data between ASCII machine and IBM machine with different encoded tapes without a translation table/process. We believe the proposal on joint cooperation will establish XXXXX as a new language in HEX decimal format. At some point you will need (conversion) tables that reconize the new language if you wish to process data via tape on your non-IBM-SEG-HP machine. How does this effect DST? DST & DIS through put PER PORT (15 - 20 meg / sec) is untouchable technology. The amount information contained on AMPEX tapes (capacity) is untouchable. Today in formating a tape, for data interchange, a data processing clerk throws a (software) switch for output to be in ASCII HEX or EBDIC HEX. Tommorrow, he will have a third option (if the machine is liscence (conversion table on a chip)) for XXXXX. Swamp Fox Charlie