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413398 2005-12-17 07:53:00 01010111 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100001 pine-o-cleen (2955)
413399 2005-12-17 07:59:00 01001101 01100101 01110010 01110010 01111001 00100000 01000011 01101000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101101 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 Scouse (83)
413400 2005-12-17 08:09:00 11111111111110111111111111
11111111111100011111111111
11111111111000001111111111
11111111110000000111111111
11111111100000000011111111
11111111111000001111111111
11111111110000000111111111
11111111100000000011111111
11111111000000000001111111
11111110000000000000111111
11111100000000000000011111
11111111111100011111111111
11111111111100011111111111
11111111111100011111111111
01001101 01100101 01110010
01110010 01111001 00100000
01011000 01101101 01100001
01110011 00100000 01100001
01101100 01101100 00100000
00111010 00101101 00101001 		Jen (38)
413401 2005-12-17 08:10:00 Actually we had to do it for real at tech.
Binary to hex to ascii and back.
And sums.
Joy.
I passed though. 		pctek (84)
413402 2005-12-17 08:13:00 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 pine-o-cleen (2955)
413403 2005-12-17 08:31:00 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 0011000100110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 :D Myth (110)
413404 2005-12-17 08:32:00 Actually we had to do it for real at tech.
Binary to hex to ascii and back.
And sums.
Joy.
I passed though.Lucky you, all I had to know was how to count in binary.
If I had to do what you did it would probably have blown my mind 		Myth (110)
413405 2005-12-17 08:45:00 Aaaargh - I'm feeling a reminisce coming on! Must resist...can't...

When I was a computer operator for IBM in the late 1960s the mainframe computers were huge beasts with flashing lights all over the front panel - no LEDs either, these were genuine small incandescent lamps. When the machines ground to a halt (which was quite frequently, this being a research and development facility) we had to copy down the light sequences, which were in binary (see, this is relevant!) and pass them on to the engineers for investigation. The really skilled amongst us could actually stand at the other end of the room and get some idea of what the machine was doing by recognising the patterns that the lights were making. These huge beasts (IBM 360/65 for those with long memories) were about 2 metres tall and several metres long and had a massive 1mb of memory.

And who amongst us has had the pleasure of trying to decipher an IBM mainframe storage dump - pages and pages of densely packed hexadecimal? 		Tony (4941)
413406 2005-12-17 10:15:00 And who amongst us has had the pleasure of trying to decipher an IBM mainframe storage dump - pages and pages of densely packed hexadecimal?

A Burroughs 3500 for me along with COBOL, EBCIDEC, punched cards, paper tape, TC500 mini computer (Assembler code)

Those were the days.

Don't forget octal code as well as hex. :-)

If you programmed in those days you had to ensure your cade would compile and fit in 12 Kb. 		Elephant (599)
413407 2005-12-17 10:51:00 ababb.aabaa.baaaa.baaaa.babbb babab.ababb.Aaaaa.baaab Rob99 (151)
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