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From: "Swarbrick, Frank" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 10:17 AM
I think someone else said it was choosing EBCDIC over ASCII. Personally I think that one's worth,
because apparently it will never be "fixed".
EBCDIC was the outcome of using punch cards, and the ease of
translating the 4-zone codes to 8 bits.
With ASCII and paper tape, it was an entirely different story,
with contiguous 8-bit representations for letters of the alphabet,
and other convenient groupings.
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