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Old 08-07-2009, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by marty View Post
Hi Tom;
The highest bit on an Altair or Imsai (64K memory) will only allow for a 3 in the left side of the octal number, such as 377.
THANK YOU Marty
Ah! So with my 62K RAM, I'd have 62*1024 = 63488 - length of program (45 bytes) = 63443, convert to octal = 173723, reverse bytes = 723 173 mask off upper bit = 323 173

Is this right?

Thanks for your patience!

Tom L
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