Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 07/10/2014 06:42 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:33 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:02 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>>> 'Ey! What'cho got 'gainst punch cards? >>>> >>> and let's not forget the punched tapes :) >> 5 hole or 7 hole ? > > 5 of course. Whatever do you need 7 for? What is the shift up and > shift down for anyway? > > BAUDOT beats ASCII and especially UNICODE any day. :) But you're alleging that UNICODE is better than, say, EBCDIC? mark, who was amused and annoyed by the Y2K ignorance PS: Why, yes, I *did* start and work for years on mainframes.