[geeks] EBCDIC

[Keith Campbell]

No, no, no, its "Even Bunnies Can Dance In Canada", or is it "Every Boy
Choose Dec, It's Cool"

Ummm, maybe not.

> Gee.. I though it was Extended Binary Code for Data Inter Change, or
> something like that.
>
> ~ -----Original Message-----
> ~ From: woods at weird.com [mailto:woods at weird.com]
> ~ Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:55 PM
> ~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> ~ Subject: Re: [geeks] EBCDIC
> ~
> ~
> ~ [ 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".... :-)
> ~