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On Wed, 25 May 2016 22:03:34 +0100, Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com>
declaimed the following:

>Indeed - at that time, I was working with COBOL on an IBM S/370. On that 
>system, we used EBCDIC ASCII. That was the wierdest ASCII of all <ducks> ;)
>
	It would have to be... Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code,
as I recall, predates American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

	EBCDIC's 8-bit code is actually more closely linked to Hollerith card
encodings. As a minor result, I used to be able to translate hex dumps in
my mind (my college computer, at the time, was a Xerox Sigma 6 -- which
used EBCDIC); ASCII, even though linear and contiguous, has never jumped
out at me when seen in hex.

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