From:	Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject:	Headware Memory
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:29:22 +1000

Bob Tockley writes:
> Sorry, here you're just plain wrong. Early computers actually ran in
> analog. With the crash of '29 and the complete re-think of technology
> who's to say what 'modern' computers work in. For all we know it could be
> some sort of bizarre hybrid or it could be Base 10. It's a fictional
> world, they can use fictional technology.

Quick nitpick, Bob: they ran in decimal, which is still digital. For an
example of the difference: integers are digital, real numbers are analog.

And as a final statement, who ever said that the notation had to stay the
same. It's quite simple... when they switched to Pulses instead of bytes,
they just brought the prefixes inline with the rest of the metric system.

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