Merry Christmas 2025-12-24 11:40 PM Hi everyone,I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year. Quote Selected 2 Likes
Re: Merry Christmas Reply #2 – 2025-12-25 02:32 PM Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! May 2026 be good to you! Quote Selected
Re: Merry Christmas Reply #3 – 2026-01-01 12:25 AM and a Happy New Year!the emergence of the 5-bit era Quote Selected
Re: Merry Christmas Reply #4 – 2026-01-01 10:19 AM Hey Eric,good to see you online again.Praying you have a fantastic 2026 mate."5-bit era" is a bit obscure for me though... Quote Selected
Re: Merry Christmas Reply #5 – 2026-01-01 10:43 AM Quote from: Lawrie Pardy – 2026-01-01 10:19 AM"5-bit era" is a bit obscure for me though... Me too.Well, I'm of the "beat" era; my daughter of the "bit" era... Quote Selected
Re: Merry Christmas Reply #6 – 2026-01-01 07:04 PM Merry Christmas and a happy new year .Does "5-bit era" refer to:QuoteBaudot - A 5-bit Stateful Codec:Baudot is a Python library for encoding and decoding 5-bit stateful encoding. This library is named after Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (1845-1903), the French engineer who invented this code. The Baudot code was the first practical and widely used binary character encoding?Bart Quote Selected
Re: Merry Christmas Reply #7 – 2026-01-01 09:11 PM The last time I used the Baudot was with a telex machine with punched paper tape, just before they became obsolete. About 1985. I still have a virgin tape. Quote Selected