2 Aug
2010
2 Aug
'10
7:57 p.m.
> And from the 70's onward I often felt a twinge
of pity whenever I saw
> References to the ASC2 character set.
Or worse yet, going full circle, "asskey
two".
Typical usage of that from the 70's onward: "You're still using asskey?
We're using asskey-2. You should upgrade."
Tim "Excessive force in the apprehension of abused acronyms has been approved"
Shoppa.
2 Aug
2 Aug
8:40 p.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
The other one I used to here about ASCII, was when a program crashed
with a corrupted text screen it would be described as "my screen was
full of ASCII characters" Well duuuhhh what do you think the normal ones
are(1). Actually more often than not it was full of extended ASCII....
1) Yeah I know there are other character sets like EBCDIC etc bu this
was a mainly PC shop.
Cheers.
Phill.
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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !
"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.
> And from
the 70's onward I often felt a twinge of pity whenever I saw
> References to the ASC2 character set.
Or worse yet, going full circle, "asskey
two".
Typical usage of that from the 70's onward: "You're still using asskey?
We're using asskey-2. You should upgrade." 
8:48 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Phill Harvey-Smith
<afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk> wrote:
corrupted text screen it would be described as
"my screen was full of ASCII
characters" Well duuuhhh what do you think the normal ones are(1). Actually
When my friends want to shop for "organic" vegetables, I ask them
where the silicon-based ones are...
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jht
8:54 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Jason T wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Phill Harvey-Smith
<afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I know someone who had a habit of saying "cadmium" (as in nickel-cadmium
batteries) as "kitty yum". So, whenever he asked to borrow rechargable
batteries from me ("Hey, can I borrow some kitty-yums?"), I'd invariably
give him a packet of cat treats.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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corrupted text screen it would be described as
"my screen was full of ASCII
characters" Well duuuhhh what do you think the normal ones are(1). Actually
When my friends want to shop for "organic" vegetables, I ask them where
the silicon-based ones are... 
3 Aug
3 Aug
3:12 p.m.
The other one I used to here about ASCII, was when a
program crashed
with a corrupted text screen it would be described as "my screen was
full of ASCII characters" Well duuuhhh what do you think the normal ones
are(1). Actually more often than not it was full of extended ASCII....
I think I'd be more likely to say 'Myt screen was full of non-ASCII
characters', meaning (in this case) ones from the IBM PC exteneded
character set with bit 7 set.
ASCII is a 7 bit code, after all..
-tony
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