dwise1 writes:
and in nearly four decades of working as a software engineer I never did pick up more than a couple dozen ASCII character codes, if even that many.
i hope that you did catch what the ASCII code for '*' was from the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series when the computer answered
"What's Life and The Universe and Everything?" with "42".
My first "computer" was a TI-50. You could program up to 50 steps into a program and run it. It also had the usual side scientific calculator keys. But one of the possible program steps was "NOP" which did nothing (No Operation). With the Fisher-Spassky World Title fresh in my mind then, I programmed a chess clock that showed the seconds left for each player, separated by a decimal point in the display. The second was made by a certain number of NOP steps in a row that took time to do nothing, then, according to who's turn it was, decrement the display by 0001.0000 or by 0000.0001. There were other distractions on that little machine.
"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside."
- xongsmith, 5.7d