12 Jun
2026
12 Jun
'26
11:15 a.m.
On Jun 12, 2026, at 2:03 PM, Tom Gardner via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I am pretty sure it was 100 six-bit characters plus a parity bit and a stop bit, so the
recorded character was indeed 1 byte but to say it was 100 bytes that would be like adding
the formatting, ECC and header to the 512 or 4 KiB industry standard sector. Many do, I
don’t 😊
Or like Fibre Channel measuring link speed in code bits rather than data (payload) bits as
other networks do.
paul