Octal

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 01 September 2006 08:50 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Trivia quiz:  What piece of hardware (not IBM) for the 5150 and 5160 (i.e.
> it was contemporary and 8 bit ISA) actually used 12-bit characters?

Um,  does IM6100 enter into that somewhere?  (I hope I'm remembering that 
number right.)

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