Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote in
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In message 3, Tom
Gardner writes
Si $3o&m wrote in
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In message , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article ,
Tom Gardner writes:
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| Well, I remember the days when 1/2 was a 7-bit character :-)
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| I remember when they were three 5-bit characters.
| (I don't think they required 5 characters, but I'd
| have to check to be certain)

It depends on which 5-bit code. I can no longer remember either of
the ones I used.

quite a few here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding

No 5 bit codes unless I've missed something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

I must be a little younger than Nick; I'm old enough to know of the
existence of Baudot code, but not old enough to have used it. (CDC
7600's and ICL 1900s/2900s used 6 bit codes.)

Yes, of course, thanks for jogging the memory.

However, I can also claim to be not-wrong since
that page isn't referenced on the character_encoding
page.

But Nick's right; 5 (and 8/7/6) bit codes are a wee
bit off topic for this group!