GE 235 System Manual page 53

MEDIA F O R M A T
Cards may be punched and read in either Decimal o r Binary Modes.
Decimal (Hollerith) Mode
The characters used a r e the decimal numbers 0 to 9, the 26 letters of the alphabet, and 2 8 special
characters which include punctuation marks, and a space o r blank. See the Representation of
GE-235 Characters on page 15 of the appendix for the complete list.
Characters a r e automatically converted to Binary Coded Decimal mode of 6 bits.
One GE-235 word i s made up of 3 characters.
O O ~ O ~ l O O O O O O O ~ ~ O O O O ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o o o o
Hollerith
I I I
4
1 6 1 1 11031
12111a151ei71119121nnrnana
I l I 1 I 1 l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l I
i
Data Card
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
5 5 5 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 7 7 1 1 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
1 8 8 8 1 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
O c t a l Octal
Word #1 Word #2