----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Geeks Ahoy! (or Clazy Geeks)


> Reef Fish wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:03:43 -0400, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >Andy M Johnson wrote:
> > >> C3C8C5C5D9E25A
> > >That's not only hex, its... its... EBCDIC!
>
> > You youngsters.  I still remember the days in 1960 (that's about
> > when you two were born, eh?  :-))  when anything other than
> > programing in binary machine-language was user-friendly.  :-)
>
> Hah... in my prime bit-twiddling days I wrote a 360 Assembler program
> that generated dynamic SIO channel programs to convert 7-track ASCII
> labelled tapes into 9-track EBCDIC IBM labelled tapes.  Let's see some
> Java-weenie do that (if you can still find a 7-track 556bpi tape drive)
>
Still got a couple of 9s but no 7s.  And no card reader but boxes of cards.

CH