On Thu Apr 9 2009 10:47:02 Charles Curley wrote: > One you likely won't find: at JPL I worked on a home brewed data > collection computer. The original home brew CPU had an 18 bit wide > Ampex core. We were adding a small herd of 6502s to supplement and > eventually replace the home brew CPU. > > The machine used a 6 bit subset of ASCII, called "half-ASCII", on its > displays. So you could stuff three characters into a word in the Ampex > core. The terms "byte" and "word" were rather fluid, depending in part > on where in memory you were writing.
That is bizarre, and cool. > > So, yes, I knew perfectly well that some pedant would pick that > nit. The only question was, which one(s)? Nicholas, please step > forward and accept the Pedant of the Day Award. Accepted. :) > > Hmmm, should we rename this outfit the Pedantic Linux Users Group? I'd wager that could apply to nearly all Linux users groups... /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
