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The subtlety: They had utilities which would produced formatted Basic listings and they would give example output of these utlities in their ads and catalogs. It was quite a while before I realized that most of those examples were not program excerpts, but complete programs which of course contained the Beagle Bros signature weirdness. And then there were the seemingly innocent hex dumps. My favorite was from the cover of one of their catalogs, which had a classic picture of this fellow sitting in a chair. On the floor next to him is a handbag with a piece of tractor paper sticking out. On the paper is a hex dump: 48 45 4C 50 21 20 and so on, which are ASCII codes that spell out the message: “HELP! GET ME OUT! I’M TRAPPED IN HERE!----SOPHIE”
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值得一提的是，今年 1 月索尼刚宣布将运营权交给 TCL 主导的合资公司，加上更早之前出让主导权的夏普及东芝，日本电子企业在电视领域的存在感正在肉眼可见地减弱。
Source: Computational Materials Science, Volume 266
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