Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "Where did Bytes Come From? - Computerphile" video.

  1. "Let's put in all the letters and numbers and puntuation marks. Where's that put us?" "About sixty." "Oh, good, six bits." "But the CEO wants lower-case letters, too." "That puts us over six bits. Seven bits it is." "An odd number of digits just doesn't feel right." "Yeah... I know, we'll add a checksum bit." "Eight bits it is. Glad to hit a power of two."
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