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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of EBCDIC
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:59:55 -0500
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candycanearter07 wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 21:12 this Tuesday (GMT):
>> Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> On 2024-11-12, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> E399A840 A38889A2 40969540 86969940 A289A985 4B4B4B5A
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>>> Ah, finally something I can understand!
>>
>> You all beat me for geek fu! :-(
>>
>> But I am young. (67)
>
> 67 is not young.

It is when you got 80+ year-old Presidents and doddering Congressmen.

Anyway, I never got experience on IBM mainframes, just on DEC machines.

Ah yes:

-- 
Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this:
to know so much and have control over nothing.
		-- Herodotus