Assignment 1, due Aug 28

Always, on every assignment, please write your name legibly as it appears on your University ID and on the class list! All assignments will be due at the start of class on the day indicated (usually a Friday). The only exceptions to this rule will be by advance arrangement unless there is what insurance companies call "an act of God" - something outside your control. Homework must be turned in on paper and in class! Late work may be turned in to the teaching assistant's mailbox, but see the late work policy. Never push late work under someone's door!

Note, because the text is not yet available at Zephyr photocopies, you will have to rely on the Internet version of the class notes for this assignment:
-- http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~dwjones/assem/notes/

1. What is your E-mail address? (If you have more than one, give the address you'd prefer used for class purposes.)

   Real Homework!

2. Background: The most interesting character set supported by any printing device in the 1950's was that of the Fridden Flex-O-Writer. One version of this had 86 printable characters and 8 control codes.

   Question: The Flex-O-Writer did not have an obvious "best" size for characters. Briefly discuss how you would go about supporting this character set on a computer with a 6-bit character code. (1 point)

3. Show what "22C:60, 10:30 MWF, 221 MLH" would look like as a punched paper tape in the ILLIAC I character encoding. Don't include the quotes. (1 point)

4. Give the 7-bit ASCII representation of the text "22C:60, 10:30 MWF, 221 MLH" Don't include the quotes. Give your result as a column of binary numbers. (1 point)