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Re: Paper tape readers for micros. (Re: I feel 31337!111!!)
- Subject: Re: Paper tape readers for micros. (Re: I feel 31337!111!!)
- From: Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:42:53 +0900
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nickb@fnord.io.com (Nick Bensema) wrote:
> Xcott Craver <sacraver@use.my.princeton.address> wrote:
> > You kept this idea to yourself, didn't you? You had this idea
> > in the 80s but kept it to yourself while I had to "A9 02" for
> > three hours, didn't you? Oh, ho-ho boy, oh boy, ooOOOooooooh.
>
> And, having such bad eyesight as I did, I never even TRIED typing in
> those damn things. Well, I think I tried once and got like twelve
> lines in or so.
I had this deal with my mom: I would do the dishes, and then she would
dictate hexadecimal to me for half an hour every night after dinner.
Went through many an issue of Nibble that way.
One evening, she was dictating something like "A9 B1 20 ED F0" and
I interrupted her and asked her if she meant "FD" instead. She said
"Um... yes... but how did you know?"
(On an Apple II, 20 ED FD is JSR COUT, the usual way of outputting a
character to the screen.)
Basic I did myself, because I couldn't work out a robust voice
encoding of punctuation that was Mom-friendly.
Paul