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> And I‘ll just casually say, well some machines had variable byte sizes and go back to what I was doing, waiting for them to start sputtering.

Maybe make a remark about word marks, or decimal machines.

Are you sufficiently sputtered yet?

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Word marks, as in the Can't Add Doesn't Even Try?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620