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and writing data to a disk was done by converting 256-byte pages into sets of 5-bit (later, 6-bit) nibbles whereas loading disk data required the reverse. Moreover, 1982 documentation for the Integrated Woz Machine refers consistently to an "8 bit nibble". The term byte once had the same ambiguity and meant a set of bits but not necessarily 8, hence the distinction of bytes and octets or of nibbles and

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