In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/25/2007
at 07:04 PM, Jim Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Someone asked the question about what good are reading tapes NL.
>There are valid reasons and these go back to the early years before
>diskettes, etc, when people wanted to tansfer data. Early, early on
>the universal mode of transfer was 7-track tape, BCD, Even-parity
>with no labels.
Even parity universal? I'm practically positive that you go back to
the 7090 and 7094, where odd parity was the norm.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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