Chuck Hast wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:55:01 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
><eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
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>>>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...
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>>EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)?
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>Yep, you got it.
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>>>and IBM was what today is the Microsoft of the computer market.
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>>"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
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>>--
>>-eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar
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>>Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says,
>>"What's wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"
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Amazed by the "Stretch" computer. IBM... took 5 years to develope,
delivered 9 (including one to themselves), and performed at 30% of the
performance that they had promised. Wonder if it was named before the
project or after.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030
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