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Article #5044Re: 7 track tape
From: Allan Duncan
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 22:37
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 22:37
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>From article <22...@charon.cwi.nl>, by d...@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter):
> Oh, but in the days of 7 track tape you could write a byte plus parity.
> It is only with the introduction of the 360 that IBM proclaimed that from
> that time onward a byte would be 8 bits. And for some reason everybody
> followed. (Yes, also IBM has known 6 bit bytes!)
There were some strange souls in this world that thought that _lower_
case characters should be used on computers, as there were _users_ who
didn't like being shouted at all the time :-)
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