By the way does anyone recall why a 1 & 0 is called a bit and there are 8 bits
>to a bite?
For awhile in the IBM world a byte was 6 bits. The "new" teletypes (really
fast (110 baud), and really cheap--like $1K). They had 8 bits with the new
fangled ASCII code, whereas IBM's code...damn I forgot the name...but it
was it would sort the same as the Hollerith card codes, whereas ASCII's
sort order was different. That was the era when Digital Equipment (DEC)
was the upstart, and IBM was what today is the Microsoft of the computer
market.
Don
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