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[–] logi@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy is the only place I've seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.

Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.

I like you.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.

[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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