How to Read Bytes from a file

[Bart Ogryczak]

On Mar 5, 10:51 am, Piet van Oostrum <p... at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> >>>>> "Bart Ogryczak" <B.Ogryc... at gmail.com> (BO) wrote:
> >BO> Any system with 8-bit bytes, which would mean any system made after
> >BO> 1965. I'm not aware of any Python implementation for UNIVAC, so I
> >BO> wouldn't worry ;-)
>
> 1965? I worked with non-8-byte machines (CDC) until the beginning of the
> 80's. :=( In fact in that time the institution where Guido worked also had such
> a machine, but Python came later.

Right, I should have written 'designed' not 'made'. UNIVACs also have
been produced until early 1980s. Anyway, I'd call it
paleoinformatics ;-)