-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Murray Lesser <=-

 RJT> Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Leonard Erickson:
 
 ML> My first "ASCII" computer was a fully-populated CP/M machine 
 ML> (64K RAM), vintage 1979.

 RJT> Wow.  In those days that was a lot of ram!  
 
 ML> All my previous programming experience was on either 6-bit or 
 ML> 8-bit machines, none of which used any version of ASCII.

 RJT> What used six bits?

Well, I don't know what *he* was using, but I learned assembly on an
ancient Honeywell that used 6-bit words. I don'ty recall how much RAM
it had, but some years back I had occasional to loook for the "hardware
manual" I still had from that course. The *maximum* it could have was 32k!

 


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