[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Aug 6, 3:26 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> > I thought that EBCDIC would have gone out with 80 column punched cards!
> > Do they still use punched cards?  It's been about ten years since I last
> > saw one!
>
> Were punched cards in EBCDIC or did they have their own character
> encoding ? With a punched card reader generating EBCDIC or ASCII
> depending on brand/model ? (aka: an IBM reader would generate EBCDIC,
> while a DEC reader would generate ASCII from the same deck of cards) ?

Punched cards had their own code. IBM and DEC card readers (or their
device drivers) each did their own thing with it.

Bart