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Comment by purple-leafy | original | How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer?
[−]purple-leafy · 2026-11-15 Sun 08:22 UTC · link
“Any text to 3 bytes” - if you mean any length of text, that is not possible
[−]glum64 · 2026-11-15 Sun 08:27 UTC · link
Read carefully: flu, 40°C.
[−]timbit42 · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:40 UTC · link
They didn't say it was lossless or recoverable.

Maybe it was like Checksum, MD5 or SHA.