python 3.3 repr

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/11/2013 16:36, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 15 November 2013 11:28:19 Joel Goldstick did opine:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
> wrote:
>>> ...........
>>>
>>>>> became popular.
>>>>
>>>> Really? you cried and laughed over 7 vs. 8 bits?  That's lovely (?).
>>>> ;).  That eighth bit sure was less confusing than codepoint
>>>> translations
>>>
>>> no we had 6 bits in 60 bit words as I recall; extracting the nth
>>> character involved division by 6; smart people did tricks with
>>> inverted multiplications etc etc  :(
>>> --
>>
>> Cool, someone here is older than me!  I came in with the 8080, and I
>> remember split octal, but sixes are something I missed out on.
>
> Ok, if you are feeling old & decrepit, hows this for a birthday: 10/04/34,
> I came into micro computers about RCA 1802 time.  Wrote a program for the
> 1802 without an assembler, for tape editing in '78 at KRCR-TV in Redding
> CA, that was still in use in '94, but never really wrote assembly code
> until the 6809 was out in the Radio Shack Color Computers.  os9 on the
> coco's was the best teacher about the unix way of doing things there ever
> was.  So I tell folks these days that I am 39, with 40 years experience at
> being 39. ;-)
>
>>> Robin Becker
>
>
> Cheers, Gene
>

I also used the RCA 1802, but did you use the Ferranti F100L?  Rationale 
for the use of both, mid/late 70s they were the only processors of their 
respective type with military approvals.

Can't remember how we coded on the F100L, but the 1802 work was done on 
the Texas Instruments Silent 700, copying from one cassette tape to 
another.  Set the controls wrong when copying and whoops, you've just 
overwritten the work you've just done.  We could have had a decent 
development environment but it was on a UK MOD cost plus project, so the 
more inefficiently you worked, the more profit your employer made.

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Mark Lawrence