This thread seems to have generated more messages per day
than any other - lets see if we can OT it even more :-).

As I recall, no doubt incorrectly as I also remember
Sputnik, that IBM coined the term "hexadecimal" but that
they originally intended to use "Sexadecimal" but the term
was deemed unacceptable language for  IBM.

I note that some PIClisters of Scandinavian origins think
porn has been "proved" OK & non-damaging for children and/or
young people - I wonder what technical terms we'd be using
now if IBM had been so persuaded back then  :-} ?


-----Original Message-----
From: Wynn Rostek <war@PALMNET.NET>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, 3 March 1998 10:10
Subject: Re: [0t]bit,byte,nibble


>At 04:53 AM 3/2/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>    Hmm... If I'd been alive in the '50s, I'd be so old by
now that
>>    my memory wouldn't be trustworthy.
>
>Hey! I resemble that remark!
>
>Wynn
>
>(Hi Andy.)
>