On 12/12/24 16:18, Bret Busby wrote:
The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes,Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that?
That would be 6 bit BCD - a precursor to EBCDIC which was an IBM 8 bit encoding most commonly implemented using 80 column punch cards
An alternative format for 80 column punch card format was Burroughs BCDIC 5 bit Baudot was also common in the early years.
