> she said the star performer was a guy named ASCII, who really didn’t get along at all with Octal I'm not convinced. ASCII is 7 bits only, which doesn't fit m

> she said the star performer was a guy named ASCII, who really didn’t get along at all with Octal I'm not convinced. ASCII is 7 bits only, which doesn't fit much better into 2*4 than into 3*3. It's not like the extra bit would be "wasted" anywhere, both octal and hex are only for displaying numbers, not actually used in memory.