[geeks] EBCDIC

[Fogg, James]

Gee.. I though it was Extended Binary Code for Data Inter Change, or
something like that.

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~ From: woods at weird.com [mailto:woods at weird.com]
~ Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:55 PM
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~ Subject: Re: [geeks] EBCDIC
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~ [ On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 23:21:56 (-0500), Ken 
~ Hansen wrote: ]
~ > Subject: Re: [geeks] Software Bloat
~ >
~ > Each column had one or more sets of holes punched, which when viewed
~ > together along a vertical line (column) were arranged in a 
~ pattern that was
~ > EBCDIC ("ebb see dick").
~ 
~ Us Canucks say "ebb seh dick".... :-)
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