On 12-02-2014, at 6:08 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:58 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 12-02-2014, at 12:27 PM, Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
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> > Yep.  That is exactly right.
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> > It’s all just 1’s and 0’s
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> Which is all well and good until you run out of 1’s, like we sometimes used to when I was a young’un trudging to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.
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> Really? We always had so many 1s we ran out of storage. Reels and reels of nothing but 1s, and the tape drive smoking 'cause we were running it at double speed to try to keep up. 
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Oh come on; surely everyone knew how to renormalize and convert them all to halves ?

tim
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