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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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