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Hello Russell,

Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 12:51:12 AM, you wrote:

> My preference is to maximize the amount of information on a single
> screen. While 250 characters is very long, picking an arbitrary number
> of characters applicable to computing in 1981 is suboptimal.

Actually it's as old as 1928:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_80-column_punched_card_format_and_character_codes


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