Shower Thought this morning -- and there are almost certainly people still alive who can answer this question: Why, when sending binary files over FTP to/from a PDP-10, were users told to use TYPE L 8 and not TYPE I transfers? Presumably this has something to do with how octets from the network were packed into a 36-bit word and stored on disk, but I just missed the heyday of 36-bit architectures and never used one (other than over FTP) myself.
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