On 2020-03-08, Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 20:51:39 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
>  declaimed the following:
>
>
>> There was almost no commonality between the 2900 and the S/360 S/370
>> apart from the decidedly odd decision to use EDCDIC character codes.
>>
>
>  EBCDIC had the advantage of mapping practically 1:1 with Hollerith card
> codes. EBCDIC and ASCII were both released with a year of each other, and
> since IBM already had equipment using "BCDIC" (no "extended") it likely was
> faster for them to develop and release EBCDIC than to wait for the ASCII
> standard, and only then develop systems using it.

Quoting from Ted Nelson's _Computer Lib_:

    ASCII and ye shall receive.
      -- the computer industry

    ASCII not, what your machine can do for you.
      -- IBM

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