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-=> Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-
MP> That has always frustrated me because we dealt with hex at work all the
MP> time, and the hex values I see on an FTN do *not* equal what we used at
MP> work. Granted, ours were *usually* EBCDIC but even the ASCII values
MP> are not "right."
"I know what binary is. Jesus Christ! I memorized the hexadecimal
times tables when I was 14 writing machine code, okay? Ask me what 9
times F is. It`s fleventy-five. I don`t need you telling me what binary
is"
Erlich Bachman, from "Silicon Valley"
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