And beyond the 7 bit ASCII there were many National ASCII code pages
using the 8th bit.
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 12:07 PM Steve Thompson wrote:
>
> I think the answer to this question "If IBM had "inflicted" ASCII
> on its customers in 1964, would the System/360 have had the wide
> acceptance that
I think the answer to this question "If IBM had "inflicted" ASCII
on its customers in 1964, would the System/360 have had the wide
acceptance that it did?" was the WANG VS series machines. Just
from my personal experience, many banks were using them, and IBM
was, to some degree, targeting them
