Hi!
On 12/3/09, Doug wrote:
> IBM introduced system 360 circa 1965, the full circle of computing
> capability. That came with 9 track tape and 8 bit bytes. Hexadecimal became
> the rule and the alphabet acquired lower case but ASCII only defined 7 bits
> out of the eight. EPSIDC character coding was an IBM-only thing and I
> probably spelled it wrong.
That's EBCDIC or Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.
Willi
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