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Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted View Post
Wasn't EBDIC (extended digital binary interchange code) the format and FORTRAN was the program?
EBCDIC ... Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code...

C1 = A
C2 = B
...

Late 70s I started with cards... our college IBM mainframes were at Research Triangle Park ... CRTs appeared around 80.

Our Burroughs filled a room too...

You do NOT want to drop a box of cards with a program of 370 Assembler instructions !

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