[chbot] Choc fish challenege 4

Fri Sep 2 00:29:27 BST 2011

It was from the days of 7bit code and it's all 1's. So by knocking out all the chads you could turn any character into a Del.

Regards, 
Robin 

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From: chchrobotics-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz [mailto:chchrobotics-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Andre Renaud
Sent: Friday, 2 September 2011 11:21 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [chbot] Choc fish challenege 4

Isn't it to do with punch cards? The little bits of paper that were
punched out were called 'chad'? Not sure how that becomes code 127 though.

On 02/09/11 10:23, hamster wrote:
> What has Chad got to do with the delete character being ASCII code 127?

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