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Subject:RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13! From:Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp128 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:john -at- garisons -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:22:30 -0800 (PST)
Actually, back in the days of mag tape, I did see what the frames (6 data bits and a check bit in EBCDIC) looked like. Someone took a segment of tape and somehow developed it. Looked rather like a bar code with vertical strings of dots and dashes instead of vetical bars.
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Reminds me of the time someone asked Admiral Grace Murray Hopper how big a nanosecond was. She took a length of twine, measured off a few inches, and said, "An electron travels about this far in one nanosecond." Very impressive.
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From: Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Subject: RE: We're Number 13! We're Number 13!
To: john -at- garisons -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 3:00 PM
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> Software systems don't really exist ... sure, everyone SAYS they're zeroes
> and ones on a whirling magnetic disc, but has anyone ever SEEN it?
>
Perhaps theology is the best background!
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