[Coco] Glenside Jacket Logo

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Steve, only you me and Gene are old enough to remember that.  (And you're the young'un).
-- 
Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

----- "Steve Bjork" <6809er at bjork-huffman.net> wrote:

> From: "Steve Bjork" <6809er at bjork-huffman.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 11:24:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Glenside Jacket Logo
>
> Brian, all attachments for email are larger than the file sent because
> 
> they are encoded ASCII and not in binary format.
> It's a hold over from the 7-bit format days of early modems and 
> pre-Internet.
> 
> Remember, sending a 7-bit character was 9% faster than sending full 
> 8-bit character.
> 
> An old 500 8-bit character message sent at 110 baud would take 50
> seconds.
> But a 500 7-bit character message send at the same speed would only
> take 
> 45 seconds.  (5 seconds faster.)
> 
> The extra bit was a big deal till modem speeds hit about 2400 baud or
> 
> so.  But it was too late because encoded ASCII was the standard for 
> attachments.
> 
> Steve Bjork
>  
> Brian Goers wrote:
> > For some reason my Jacket Logo file of 29KB goes out in Email as 
> > 41.7KB. So will have to wait for the moderators approval.
> > It will come up soon.
> > Brian
> 
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