RCA 1861, NTSC and a DEC VR-201 (Mea Culpa!) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Oct 1999

I blathered:
...
 > 1  Black   1e0    First 2 digits  give mantissa,
> 2  Brown   1e1    3rd digit gives exponent, ...

Philip Belben corrected:
...
 Ouch!  No, black is zero, brown is one, up to white
which is nine. 
*Thank You, Philip*! I guess it just proves that it takes more than a copy
of Horowitz & Hill (who got it right) - one must also be *literate* to play
an EE...
The table I typed in was rotated by one digit. Ouch is right. Sorry about
that! And right on the heels of Mars Climate Meteorite, too....those who
don't study history and all that, I guess...
					- Mark