----- From: "cdb" <bodgy1@

Bugger sent it to the sender by mistake - not paying attention to
return addresses

You almost got me with your subject title,

I'm thinking which calendar version put December in October may a
hex be put on all of you. :))

colin

Hex, my personal favorite :)
Actually OCTal is not used much today, but I was working on a project =
that required 3 bits for address and 3 bits for data.
So I decided to pack each into a nibble along with a parity bit and send =
a single 8 bit byte with parity checking for address and parity checking =
for data.
This way if the data is corrupted but has a correct address parity, only =
the addressed transceiver need NAK and the others can ignore. But if the =
addresses parity doesn't match, the originating transceiver must wait =
and failing to see an ACK or a NAK resend.

Lonnie - KF4HAZ -

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