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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of octal
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:38:47 +0000
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On 16/11/2024 14:14, Andreas Eder wrote:
> On Sa 16 Nov 2024 at 00:01, "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
> 
>>    As for terminals, I liked the Textronics 4000
>>    series a lot more. For text + simple graphs
>>    vector really was faster/sharper than bitmap ...
>>    at least back in the low-bandwidth day.
> 
> It is Tektronix you mean, not Textronics isn't it?
> 
> 'Andreas
Phonetic spelling. USA's favorite pastime. Along with inventing 
multisyllabic words.
Burglarize
Copacetic.

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