>>There were also a few systems that used CHR(10)+CHR(13) (line feed followed by carriage return). The hard bit was visually speaking, the effect was indistiguishable from the CHR(13)+CHR(10) sequence if you simpy display the file -- it's when your text editor did strange things with the text (e.g. everything gets double-spaced and last character of each line or first character of each line gets "eaten") that you notice something is amiss.
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>>And to think... all this confusion with just a "simple" text file...
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>And don't forget WordStar (and FoxPlus editor, IIRC, in some cases) which would put chr(141) (i.e. chr(13) with 7th bit set) as a "soft CR", i.e. a place where you could optionally wrap the paragraph without actually creating a new paragraph... which was confusing to no end, specially if you tried to write code generators...
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>I guess we're both old enough to remember those, eh?
*cringe*

One feels old if you're in a roomful of people who work with computers and you're the *only* knows about toggling in bootstrap code into a computer. Or if you're the only one in the room that knows Hollerith code. Once got off on a good start with one of my college professors (back in the late 1980s) -- I was one of the few students noticed that he had MITS Altair 8800 sitting in his office. I did demonstrate my full nerd status at university by not only owning a slide rule, but knowing how to use it. One of these days I'm gonna have to get a "soroban" (Japanese abacus) and read up on its usage.