With you all the way, I used to write random access databases,
and the need for data compression was intense in those early
days, with limited storage space. I wrote a number of algorithms
depending on the type of data to be stored. The need for set
standard storage packets was essential in order to store a full
random access database, which had to be read, unpacked,
viewed, altered (perhaps) re-coded and re-written and
re-stored in the same space. All done from machine code.
Fun days ...
Best Wishes, Raymond
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