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to: ALAN IANSON
from: HOLGER GRANHOLM
date: 2015-04-08 12:50:00
subject: Re: I read it wrong

MSGID: 2:20/228 0230f36a
In a message dated 04-06-15, Alan Ianson said to Maurice Kinal:

AI> On 04/07/15, Maurice Kinal said the following...

 MK> As for your "high ascii" issue, there is and never was any such thing.
 MK> It was and still is othing more than a hoax.  ;-)

AI> I was hooked years ago with my first "Connect/2400..." I've been
AI> suffering ever since.. :)

Hi Alan,

Instead of talking about "high ascii" you should call it PC 8 or IBM PC8
Pure ASCII is a 7-bit code while PC 8 is a 8-bit code and named CP-437
for code page 437.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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