Are those 8-bit characters, or variable-sized Unicode Tweet characters? Or maybe SIXBIT characters?
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SIXBIT MOST LIKELY, GIVEN THIS WAS IN A ROOM WITH AN IBM 1401. *read imagining a terrifying noise of a chain printer in the background*
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I thought those were decimal? ...I guess their characters were six bits
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Yeah, I think you're right. I understand the numbers were decimal "strings" of possibly unlimited length.
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I've never programmed one, but that's what I've read about them
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I think that's what's challenging talking about old computers – they are often transitional, many different ideas at the same time.
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What's challenging to me is that almost all my knowledge about them is hearsay (or occasionally emulation, still not the same)
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Great resource: http://ibm-1401.info/
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The same team that restored two of the 1401s for the CHM.
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there's a photo there with Steve Russell, who is more historically significant than the 1401 is
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He's one of the volunteers.
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