Re: [ARSCLIST] The person responds was Thin tape decay

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From: Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:30:17 -0700
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steven c wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Champion (FOA ANT)" <n.champion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And perhaps if Bill Gates had done his globe-trotting at a younger age,
today's computers might better accommodate that part of the world's
population not resident in the US.
Well, suppose he had started work on microcomputers in Taiwan, with the
Chinese "alphabet" of 50,000 or so characters! Try to modify a 128-character
teletype system to suit THAT...

I'll happily blame Gates for what he did wrong (and credit him for what he did right), but the character set isn't his contribution either way. ANSI and ASCII are out of the punched-tape era; there were conflicting character sets beyond the basic 32 throug 127 before his day.

Mike
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