• An 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems. EBCDIC descended from the code used with punched cards and the corresponding six-bit binary-coded decimal code used with most of IBM’s computer peripherals of the late 1950s and early 1960s. ← Wikipedia

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