01101100011011110110110000111111

[ThomasDodd]

122 141 162 145 154 171 040 165 163 145 040 157 143 164 141 154 056 056 056

131 145 141 150 040 151 164 047 163 040 163 145 154 144 157 155 040 165 163 145 144 040 141 156 171 155 157 162 145 056 040 123 164 151 154 154 040 165 163 145 144 040 151 156 040 125 116 111 130 054 040 154 151 153 145 040 146 151 154 145 040 160 145 162 155 151 163 163 151 157 156 040 142 151 164 163 056 015 012

[Paul S]

I have always liked 38 28 38 (and there abouts) myself

[Chuck(G)]

074430 110417 000171 053606 034555 070510 077111 073317 054110 060434 127400

[Joe Baker]

' sorry...' not worth the trouble (at least not to me)...

http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/binaryalphabet.html

There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't!
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01001010 01101111 01100101 00100000 01000010 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100001

[Chuck(G)]

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[Chuck(G)]

There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't!

124150145156040164150145162145040141162145040164150157163145040167150157040143141156040167162151164145040070055142151164040101123103111111040164145170164056056056167145154154054040163157155145040157146040165163056040111155040156157164040157156145040157146040164150145155054040111155040141040143150145141164145162056056056163150141155145040157156040155145056

124157157040145141163171041040040110157167040141142157165164040164150151163040157156145072

110401 076404 057233 001450 035470 073401

[Joe Baker]

Would those be Buffalo wingdings?
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Joe Baker, who is enjoying this, but really should be working.

[Joe Baker]

00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000
00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110
00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110110 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110101 00110011 00110000 00110011 00110100 00110011 00110000 00110000 00110000
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Joe Baker, who is going home now!

[Chuck(G)]

16715115614714415115614716307704011015716704014114215716516404015517104014315714
41450770400401110471541540401471511661450401711571650401410401461451670401501511
56164163056040040111164047163040141040163164141156144141162144040143157144145054
040141156144040104105103151144145154171040122101104056040072051

110466 026151 054253 000257 054110 052450 110001 127400

[Joe Baker]

Chuck, I'll work on yours more tomorrow. I've eliminated EBCDIC & every variant I know of BCD, so it's obviously pretty obscure. I'll take your little hints and take a crack at it tomorrow. Right now I'm going home for a little o' THIS:

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Joe Baker, who figgered it was time this thread turned to something important!

[Chuck(G)]

10131233122112321213020013101233020012131233020013001233131113020200123113211303
12111230121202001201020012031233123012100200123312321211023202000200021310021321
12110201

[Joe Baker]

10131233122112321213020013101233020012131233020013001233131113020200123113211303
12111230121202001201020012031233123012100200123312321211023202000200021310021321
12110201

The picture is you; the words are me.

Hope you enjoyed it. Even with my secret decoder ring I can't make hide nor hair of the octal sextuplets, though. What are they?
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Joe Baker, who is seldom stumped by numeric substitution codes, and suspects this one is something more -- and hasn't the time for "something more"

[Chuck(G)]

Hope you enjoyed it. Even with my secret decoder ring I can't make hide nor hair of the octal sextuplets, though. What are they?

They're "RAD50" coding as used in DEC RT-11 and RSX-11 directories. (Hence my hint of being DECidedly RAD). It's a way to put 3 characters in 16 bits. The 50 in "Rad50" is 50 octal or 40 decimal.

Here's a decoder:

Code: Select all

#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char **argv)
{

  unsigned int
    orig;
  char rT[] =
   " ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.%0123456789";

  if (argc < 2) {
    fprintf(stderr, "\nFormat is %s octal-string...\n", *argv);
    return 255;
  }

  for(argc--, argv++ ;argc; argv++,argc--) {
    sscanf(*argv, "%o", &orig);
    printf( "%c%c%c", 
	rT[(orig / 1600) % 40], 
	rT[(orig / 40) % 40], 
	rT[orig  % 40] );
  }
  printf("\n");
  return 0;
} 

[Joe Baker]

Ah. Just barely missed the RT-11. I did some work in Vaxeln on an RTVAX back -- oh, close to 20 years ago. But it was pure ASCII.

I misread your clues. I was looking for some way to have a DECimal RADix. Oh well...

I don't feel too bad about missing that one, I guess! Thanks for the challenge!
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Joe Baker, who recalls that the non-realtime stuff in that project (for the Puzzle Palace ) was done on a whole bunch of surplus PDP-11s.

[Joe Baker]

Chuck, I'm sure you do EVERYTHING your way! Fun code; I don't have a C compiler handy, so I programmed it into a spreadsheet instead.

See you around; I gotta finish my REAL work & go home -- I'm in the Eastern time zone, y'know!
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Joe Baker, who is up past his bedtime.

[Chuck(G)]

Joe, glad you had fun. I've got a million of 'em.

DECstation WPS-1 coding took me almost 7 years on-and-off to make sense of. So, sometimes, I'm really slow.