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Subject: Re: The joy of octal
Date: 15 Nov 2024 18:28:25 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:58:55 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    Wow ... haven't thought about octal/EBCDIC for a LONG time.

Until three or four years ago a Midwestern US state's criminal justice API 
used EBCDIC and the 3270 protocol. There is little uniformity in the 
various state CJIN interfaces but that was one of the stranger ones. 

They must have finally ran out of parts for the card sorters on eBay when 
they went to XML.