[sionnsar]

I didn’t understand a word of that. Fortunately, much of what we might once have wanted to record is now available on Internet streaming video!

Count your blessings -- or not! For many years I carried a card in my wallet with a table in it, 16 columns and 16 rows, with which I could determine the printable character represented by an 8-bit code, or vice versa, the 8-bit code for a character. I even used it fairly often -- in the good old days.

Internet streaming video is not the answer to everything, however -- I shudder at the thought of calculating numbers by relying on tables of logarithms seen on streaming video! (I had to do such some years back when I found myself with a problem, no computer, no calculator, no slide-rule even, but.. a log table was available).

[NicknamedBob]

"Count your blessings -- or not! For many years I carried a card in my wallet with a table in it, 16 columns and 16 rows, with which I could determine the printable character represented by an 8-bit code, or vice versa, the 8-bit code for a character. I even used it fairly often -- in the good old days."

I used to have a program that allowed me to scan through the data recorded on a programmable chip. I used it to scan for the character set.

At the time, I could program chips myself, and it was fun to do modifications to the character set.