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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:52:11 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> FORTRAN was even worse, at least in the bad old days. Porting Adventure
> and Dungeon from the PDP-11 to Univac's 360 workalikes was lots of fun. 
> Not only were there a lot of DECisms (RAD50 constants, anyone?)
> but I had to convert ASCII to EBCDIC (including decrypting the message
> file, translating it, and re-encrypting it).  But I _really_ wanted to
> play Dungeon, and I didn't have access to a PDP-11...

I won't name names but when I did an interface to a large US Midwestern 
state's criminal justice network the queries and returned data had to be 
translated to/from EBCDIC. Their last card reader must have broken a 
couple of years ago when they went to a new ASCII API.