BIT 483 / was Re: Non-fake Apple 1 on ebay

[Chuck Guzis]

On 23 Nov 2009 at 21:42, CSquared wrote:

> I suppose it is all about what one becomes familiar with. 

At various times in my life, I've worked with systems whose 
documentation radix was variously decimal, octal and hex (and octal 
and hex at the same time in the same company).  Talking about 60 bit 
words divided into 15-bit parcels makes sense in octal; 64-bit words 
make plenty of sense in hexidecimal, particularly if they're 8-bit 
byte oriented.  

It's kind of like musical notation--if you learn to read all clefs 
and can handle common transpositions without actively thinking about 
it, then there are many fewer surprises in store.

--Chuck