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Old Nov 03 2011, 04:00 PM   #182
rhett
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Originally Posted by tpozzy View Post
Oh no - flashback to my early programming days in the late '70s, programming on the front panel of my 16-bit Altair 8080 kit! 32767+1 = -32768 (or in hex 7fff + 1 = 8000)! How geeky is that!
I don't know, could you ever whistle into an acoustic modem and get the teletype to write a word? I could only get random letters...
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