[SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff

[Dave McGuire]

On June 5, Ken Hansen wrote:
> There once was a time whrn the Government decreed that all the computers
> they buy will be ASCII-based, and IBM had the might to say "no, we think
> EBCIDC (sp?) is better" and won, the government kept buying IBM mainframes
> that were not ASCII compliant.

  EBCDIC...Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.

  Truly strange compared to ASCII.

     -Dave McGuire