>>>>BTW, in my s/w engineering days we used to manipulate 4-bit chunks of data - called "nybbles"
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>>>In my mainframe days even bits were expensive. :)
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>>Tell me about it! ICL 1903a using 24-bit core storage in my case.
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>Tell me about it. In my case we had a 24 byte disk which we had to wind up, and a tape unit which worked on coal.
Luxury! My first computer was a cardboard box filled with pebbles, with salty seaweed making the electrical connections - when we could get electricity!
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
