The Limit of 80 Characters in a Punch Card

The 80 character limit may in fact be a left over form of hazing. A lot of stuff that we do in computing now actually came from punch cards, but you just don't really notice it. If you want o type in the letter a, the character for the letter a in asky is 97. Punch cards work the same way that 97. You convert it to bindery, and it gives you one, one, zero, zero, 0, zero,zero, zero,Zero, one. That's still how we do things to day. We went from 12 bit, aigt bit, nibbles, and now everybody uses bites, right? Which, if you