I think the real Peirce alphabetic punch patent is probably https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/6f/14/09/a27ac1fe893e02/US998631.pdf … (which I think is new to me)pic.twitter.com/qMlxqr9uJt
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I think the real Peirce alphabetic punch patent is probably https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/6f/14/09/a27ac1fe893e02/US998631.pdf … (which I think is new to me)pic.twitter.com/qMlxqr9uJt
He apparently also had another dead-end 6-bit code that I don't think I've seen before https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/aa/4a/e6/da3e4fc107d814/US1506381.pdf …pic.twitter.com/Awyf9WVFrG
I think the early Peirce code is actually https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/76/78/e6/6633a482750c84/US1253417.pdf …pic.twitter.com/BsPgmYobtA
Or actually I'm not sure which is earlier. This sure beats trying to find patent sources on microfilm though
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/6f/14/09/a27ac1fe893e02/US998631.pdf … must be the one they mean, because it's the one that has no letter I
Wow, the numeric keypad in that one is unlike any other, although it makes some mechanical sense, I suppose.pic.twitter.com/T8tLhbZ511
It’s kind of amazing he wanted to remove the *letter*.
You can sort of see him struggling with figuring out, torn between the world of letters and the world of digits…pic.twitter.com/D4HRKAxaw7
Probably hadn't really thought about alphabetic sorting? Knew they needed to sort numbers, but were only concerned with printing letters
So if the output looked OK, it didn't matter if the O was internally a 0 or the I was really a 1
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