Unknown CDC unit , looks like a drum memory ?

[geneb]

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Paul Koning wrote:

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>> On May 16, 2018, at 8:28 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
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>>> OK  I  see there is a  mix  of  photos in this  directory!
>>> some  tape  reader  some  drum  2  separate  topics.
>>>
>> Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else) can see this, but there's two junk characters at the end of every word you write.  I see it in Alpine and it makes your text nearly unreadable. :)
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> You mean "=C2=A0" ?  Ed's mail has a Mime encoding "quoted-printable", 
> not sure why.  If your mail reader doesn't know how to handle Mime 
> headers, you'd see those encoding markers as actual text rather than as 
> the character they are supposed to represent.  C2 A0 is UTF-8 for 
> "non-breaking space" which explains why many others haven't noticed 
> anything odd.

There's no rational reason to MIME encode the *body* of an email, unless 
of course they're using some badly written horror show that thinks HTML 
and embedded graphics are perfectly acceptable. (Those people tend to 
top-post as well, so they're basically irredeemable at that point. :) )

g.


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