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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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