Editing Bit bucket (section)

==References==
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<ref name="Intel_1978_MSC86-OI">{{cite book |title=MCS-86 Assembler Operating Instructions For ISIS-II Users |id=Manual Order No. 9800641A |chapter=Explicit Controls |date=1978 |edition=A32/379/10K/CP |publisher=[[Intel Corporation]] |location=Santa Clara, California, USA |page=[https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_intelISISIblerOperatingInstructionsforISISIIUsersM_3593319/page/n10 3]-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_intelISISIblerOperatingInstructionsforISISIIUsersM_3593319 |access-date=2020-02-29 |quote=[…] If you want a summary of errors but not a listing file this is the command: […] -ASM86 LOOT.SRC PRINT(:BB:) ERRORPRINT […] Note that the :BB: is the "byte bucket"; [[Intel ISIS-II|ISIS-II]] ignores [[I/O]] commands from and to this "device". It is a [[null device]]. […]}} [https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_intelISISIblerOperatingInstructionsforISISIIUsersM_3593319/9800641A_MCS-86_Assembler_Operating_Instructions_for_ISIS-II_Users_Mar79_djvu.txt][https://archive.org/download/bitsavers_intelISISIblerOperatingInstructionsforISISIIUsersM_3593319/9800641A_MCS-86_Assembler_Operating_Instructions_for_ISIS-II_Users_Mar79.pdf]</ref>
<ref name="DRI_1983_CPM86-PG">{{cite book |title=CP/M-86 – Operating System – Programmer's Guide |chapter=Appendix A. ASM-86 Invocation |date=January 1983 |orig-year=1981 |edition=3 |publisher=[[Digital Research]] |location=Pacific Grove, California, USA |page=94: Table A-3. Device Types |url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/cpm-86/CPM-86_Programmers_Guide_Jan83.pdf |access-date=2020-02-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227225328/http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/cpm-86/CPM-86_Programmers_Guide_Jan83.pdf |archive-date=2020-02-27}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20200227132338/https://www.z80cpu.eu/mirrors/oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/pub/manuals/cpm86pg.pdf] (NB. Digital Research's ASM-86 uses token 'Z' (for "zero") to indicate the byte bucket.)</ref>
<ref name="Sandberg_1985">{{cite news |author-last=Sandberg-Diment |author-first=Erik |date=1985-07-09 |title=Parity: An Elegantly Simple Approach to Errors |series=Personal Computing |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York, N.Y., USA |id=Section C |page=4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/09/science/personal-computing-parity-an-elegantly-simple-approach-to-errors.html |access-date=2013-11-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227135254/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/09/science/personal-computing-parity-an-elegantly-simple-approach-to-errors.html |archive-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
<ref name="Blase_1990">{{cite news |author-last=Blase |author-first=W. Paul |date=1990-02-17 |title=No Harmless Hacker He |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |location=Washington, D.C., USA |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/02/17/no-harmless-hacker-he/46728304-40ba-4899-96a2-3f67742f4923/ |access-date=2013-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123173709/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/02/17/no-harmless-hacker-he/46728304-40ba-4899-96a2-3f67742f4923/ |archive-date=23 November 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name="Cutler_1964">{{cite book |author-last=Cutler |author-first=Donald I. |date=1964 |title=Introduction to Computer Programming<!-- |id=volume 880 of system development corporation ??? --> |publisher=[[Prentice-Hall]] |page=108 |isbn=<!-- no ISBN --> |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ecmAAAAMAAJ&q=bucket |access-date=2013-11-08 |quote=The lost bits fall into a container called a bit bucket. They are emptied periodically and the collected bits are used for [[confetti]] at weddings, parties, and other festive occasions.}}</ref>
<ref name="OBrien_2010">{{cite book |author-last=O'Brien |author-first=Frank |date=2010-06-25 |title=The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation |publisher=[[Springer Science & Business Media]] |page=45 |edition=illustrated |isbn=978-1-44190877-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fKzL0HfJp4C&pg=PA45 |access-date=2013-11-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227144624/https://books.google.com/books?id=3fKzL0HfJp4C&pg=PA45&lpg=PA37&focus=viewport&hl=en |archive-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
<ref name="Signetics_1972">{{cite web |title=Signetics 25120 Fully Encoded, 9046xN, Random Access Write-Only-Memory |author-first=John "Jack" G. |author-last=Curtis |date=1972 |publisher=[[Signetics]] |type=photocopy |url=http://www.national.com/rap/files/datasheet.pdf |access-date=2012-03-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316141638/http://www.national.com/rap/files/datasheet.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-16}}</ref>
<ref name="Java2s">{{cite web |title=Demonstrate the use of the Null stream as a bit bucket: Stream Null « File Stream « C# / C Sharp |website=java2s.com |publisher=Demo Source and Support |url=http://www.java2s.com/Code/CSharp/File-Stream/DemonstratetheuseoftheNullstreamasabitbucket.htm |access-date=2020-02-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227140153/http://www.java2s.com/Code/CSharp/File-Stream/DemonstratetheuseoftheNullstreamasabitbucket.htm |archive-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
<ref name="Wilkinson_1988">{{cite magazine |title=That month again |series=INSIGHT: Atari |author-first=Bill |author-last=Wilkinson |magazine=[[Compute!]] |issue=95 |date=April 1988 |page=56 |url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue95/056_1_INSIGHT_ATARI_THAT_MONTH_AGAIN.php |access-date=2020-02-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227135922/https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue95/056_1_INSIGHT_ATARI_THAT_MONTH_AGAIN.php |archive-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
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